Testimonials
Testimonial Category: Tangle Toys
| "I am a grade 2 teacher in the Chicago Public School system. I was recently introduced to your products at a seminar at the Erickson Institute. Teachers are encouraged to use your products to engage brain stems while teacher is instructing. Children learn better when they are using all parts of the brain. Basically, giving children the option of picking up a Tangle Toy while they are listening to instruction increased their attention. However, I have already exhausted funds I allocated for my classroom. Please let me know if your organization has any surplus supplies or extra promotional items of any kind. Kindly, consider dropping them in the mail to donate to our classroom. Many thanks!" |
| - Diana Ornelas |
| Chicago, IL |
| "I am an occupational therapist working for two school districts. I travel between school and provide services each day to students with special needs. While my students have varying disabilities, many have difficulty with attention to task and need help staying focused. Others have poor motor coordination and muscle strength and this impacts their ability to complete written work. Each week, I bring a variety of therapeutic tools to each school to assist my students in learning to function to the best of their ability. I have found Tangle products to be very useful and I always keep them in my travel bag each week. I offer small Tangle toys to students to use as fidgets to improve their auditory and visual attention. Other students pull apart and put together Tangle toys as a warm up activity to improve the small muscle strength in their hands. Then, they seem to have better endurance for written work. Everyone seems to enjoy working with both large and small Tangle Toys." |
| - Karen C. |
| Brandon School District, Michigan |
| "I am a teacher for a lifeskills elementary class. I was excited to hear about your tangle toy products and use them in my classroom. Students love them! As well as I do myself. What a great invention and exploratory tool for students." |
| - Sara L. |
| Pekin, IL |
| "The first Tangle I ever saw was in a free box at a garage sale. A small unassuming but colorful little interesting item. I picked it up and felt something wonderful. It reminded me of when I was a child and had pop beads. They were beads that you could take apart and put back together and spend hours and hours making different color combinations and wear them. I immediately took the Tangle home, washed it, and gave it to my 28 year old son who has a progressive degenerative neurological disease. He is in a wheelchair, non-verbal, and has limited movement with his hands. He grabbed the Tangle between his fingers and proceeded to manipulate it for hours at a time. It is his only toy.
Thanks so much for creating this wonderful item." |
| - Linda |
| Tualatin, OR |
| "We, at the Presbyterian Home of the Moshannon Valley, have created a program called the Kaleidoscope Initiative. It symbolizes the great strides we have made toward making our long-term care facility into a social model instead of a medical model by making the resident the center of all. Through this, we have achieved a restraint free atmosphere for the entire 120-bed facility. This is free from physical and chemical restraints. We do have residents who suffer from bordem and mental health diagnoses. We are constantly looking for innovative ways to help satisfy residents needs even if it is the need to have their hands busy like they were used to for many years. I came across your website and saw your list of steps you'll take in the Peace Plan. I would like to see all long-term care facilities added to your list of contributions. I am requesting that you consider sending us a few samples of your Magic in Motion and we will be sure to advise you on the usefulness amongst our elderly. It truly appears to be therapy for all ages. We would like to try the textured Tangle, as well, since many our residents suffer from loss/deterioration of senses. We really feel your product could help our residents relax, help with boredom and the need to be busy." |
| - Kathy |
| Unknown |
| "My first exposure with your Tangle came on the occasional classes in the corporate training department. There were assorted items scattered on the tables to keep hands busy and if you weren't the lucky 2 to grab the Tangles you were stuck with what was left. Some years go by.....my second exposure was a few weeks ago in my therapist's office (yeah, I was JUST A TAD excited to see it again!!!!) and only after my session did I realize how I couldn't put it down...really convenient because you can Tangle with one hand and talk with the other one. I finally bought one of my own...I won't say where because now they're mine...all mine!!!! One thing I really like is the one-handed-ness about the Jr. that I like/have is that if someone actually expects me to use both hands for something then I can let it fall to a bracelet style or wrap it around my fingers (brass-knuckle style). Another reason is I didn't realize that excessive snacking was because I needed something to do with my hands while exercising my right to be a couch potato. This year for Christmas my 18 year old nephew will be getting his own Tangle, why, you ask??? because last year I gave him a Christmas-ornament sized etch-a sketch and he flipped over it. I'm quite certain he'll love this too.
Thank you so much for letting vent...thank you Mr. Tangle creator...you are a genius..." |
| - Lisa |
| USA |
| "Hello!
I am a paraprofessional with special education with the Fairfield Suisun Unified School District in Fairfield, California. I discovered Tangles about 3 years ago and have been using them ever since. I primarily work with autistic children, but while mainstreaming them I will also work with regular education children.
Being a paraprofessional, I do not have a lot of money to spend each year. I give my Tangles away to other teachers as the need arises to help out some of their children. In my school alone, there are now 5 other teachers who use tangles on a daily basis. The word is out. The kids work hard to earn Tangle and this has tremendously improved behaviors with some children. It also helps me with my class when there are fire drills and assemblies. We use them with our 7 kids during circle time.
Thank you very much!" |
| - A Teacher |
| Fairfield, CA |
| "As an educator of pre-service teachers of special education, we have enjoyed endless activities using the huge variety of Tangle Toys. I use Tangle Toys during demonstrations and hands-on experiences within my classroom, as well as working directly with individuals with disabilities. The sensory-stimulation we gain from using these amazingly textured, brightly-colored Toys is remarkable! Thank you Tangle Toys for engineering an absolutely amazing and welcome manipulative to the world of 'education'." |
| - Deitra K. |
| Illinois |
| "I would like to thank you for creating these toys. I have several students with ADD and ADHA who have been driving me crazy this year. Now I hand them a Tangle when they walk in my classroom and they are NO TROUBLE AT ALL. It keeps their hands busy and mouths closed and they seem to be learning so far better than before." |
| - Susan C. |
| Unknown |
| "On Halloween night, I was playing with one of your Aloha Tangles as trick or treaters came to my door. I noticed that as the children selected their treats, they were eyeing the Tangle hanging off my wrist. I offered them a chance to take turns trying out the Tangle. It was clear that the kids liked the toy. At one point a boy around eight or nine years of age took a second glance at the selection of candy treats I presented, then at the Tangle on my wrist, and then asked, "Oh, are all the toys gone?" He'd heard about the Tangle from other trick or treaters and thought I was giving them out as treats.
I am a first grade teacher and I like using the Tangle in class to rein in the attention of a student when I'm editing a paper with them. They listen better and don't find the process so painful. Thanks for such a great product!" |
| - Tress P. |
| Fair Oaks, CA |
