Guidecraft USA

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Englewood, New Jersey 07631
United States
Telephone: 800-544-6526 or 201-894-5401.
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Discontinued products manufactured by Guidecraft USA (listed alphabetically)

1. AROUND THE COMMUNITY SOUND LOTTO (MODEL 41603)

   --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Around The Community, model 41603, is a pre-reading and independent living skills tutorial for children with disabilities. The game consists of four wooden score cards covered with brightly painted depictions of common activities, including a crying baby, a chicken, a motorcycle, a bus, a stream, and other similar objects and people. An audio tape of recorded sounds normally associated with each graphic is included in the kit. The game is used to assist children in relating sounds to pictures, strengthen concentration, develop perception of familiar sounds and assist in language development.

2. AROUND THE HOME SOUND LOTTO (MODEL 41405)

   --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Around The Home Sound Lotto is an independent living skills tutorial and educational toy for children with linguistic and auditory disabilities. The audiocasette tape guides children to choose the exact picture that fits each particular sound. Everyday sounds on the tape include those of a man yawning, a baby crying, a person drinking with a straw, a piano and a ringing telephone.

3. AT THE PARK (MODEL 41432)

   --- DISCONTIONUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE --- At The Park, model 41432, is a giant wooden puzzle designed for use by children with learning, physical, and visual disabilities. Designed to increase manual deterity and visual recognition skills, the colorful, 25-piece puzzle depicts a day at the park and features children engaged in various outdoor activities. The game provides endless opportunites for discussions and question-and-answer games. DIMENSIONS: The puzzle measures 50 centimeters x 50 centimeters x 0.6 centimeters.

4. BATH ROOM (MODEL 41401)

   --- DISCONTIONUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE --- The Bath Room, model 41401, is an independent living skills tutorial for children with learning disabilities. The four-piece wooden puzzle depicts a little boy surrounded by items commonly found in a bathroom, including a mirror, comb, towel, toothbrush and toothpaste, and a hairblower. DIMENSIONS: The Board measures 24 x 33 x 09. centimeters.

5. BEFORE-AFTER (MODEL 41419)

   --- DISCONTIONUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE --- Before-After, model 41419, is a time skills and cognitive skills tutorial program and wooden puzzle for children with cognitive disabilities. When arranged in the correct three-part sequence, the 10 puzzles depict an activity before, during and after it occurs. Included in the puzzle scenes are a girl combing her hair, a girl getting dressed, a boy drinking from a glass, a candlelit birthday cake, a drawing on a notepad, a shirt being laundered, and a weather scene. DIMENSIONS: Each tablet measures 9.5 x 24.5 x 0.6 centimeters.

6. BLOCK CART (MODEL GD3009)

   --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 10/2008) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Block Cart, model GD3009, is a set of large blocks designed for use by children with disabilities. The 35 brightly blocks can be used to teach basic counting and grouping skills, or to enhance fine motor control through building activities. Designed in various geometric shapes, the durable blocks come in their own easy-to-pull wooden cart. DIMENSIONS: The wooden cart measures 11.5 x 11.5 x 2.25 inches.

7. BLOCK TRUCK (MODEL G3030)

   --- DISCONTIONUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE --- The Block Truck, model G3030, is an eye hand coordination activity designed for use by children with neurological and fine motor disabilities. This all wooden truck features rolling wheels and a pull string. The rear truck bed is filled with 28 smooth wooden blocks in assorted basic colors and geometric shapes which can be used to teach shape and color recognition and pattern building. DIMENSIONS: 12 x 9.5 x 5.25 inches.

8. BODY SCHEME FLOOR PUZZLE (MODEL 41450)

   --- DISCONTIONUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE --- The Body Scheme Floor Puzzle, model 41450, is a sexuality education aid for children with learning disabilities. The wooden floor puzzle consists of 18 pieces making up the human figure. Interchangeable male and female heads and pelvis allow children to match the correct pieces with each sex. DIMENSIONS: The puzzle is 85 centimeters high.

9. BODY SCHEME INTERLOCKING FLOOR PUZZLE (MODEL41451)

   --- DISCONTIONUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE --- The Body Scheme Interlocking Floor Puzzle, model 41451, is a sexuality aid for children with learning disabilities. The 40-piece wooden puzzle allows children to construct a model of the human figure, with interchangeable figures that allow children to construct an anatomically correct boy or girl. DIMENSIONS: The puzzle is 85 centimeters high when completed.

10. BOX OF SQUARES (MODEL GD5001)

    --- DISCONTIONUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE --- Box of Squares, model GD5001, is an educational toy and math skills game for children with learning disabilities. A simple framed box holds 25 wooden squares grouped by color. The pieces can be used to strengthen counting, matching, sorting, memory, and fine motor control skills. The toy comes with an activity guide that provides additional ideas for progressive problem solving games in each category. COLOR: The blocks come in blue, orange, yellow, green and red.

11. COUNT AND SORT PEG BOARD (MODEL GD2005)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Count and Sort Peg Board, model GD2005, is a pegboard game for children with disabilities. The game consists of a wooden board with 25 holes and vertical pegs of different colors. The pegs can be sorted by size, color and groups to reinforce visual discrimination skills and strengthen fine motor control. The game includes an activity guide designed to teach more progressively complex math skills.

12. CUBE PUZZLES (MODELS GD5010-1, GD5010-2 & GD5010-3)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Cube Puzzles, models GD5010-1, GD5010-2 & GD5010-3, are wooden puzzle blocks for children with disabilities. Each model includes eight blocks with a different figure or animal painted on each of its four sides. Children must stack the blocks and "solve" the puzzle by matching all the identical pictures and forming a consistent picture block. Each model includes a different group including animals, model GD5010-1; geometric shapes, model 5010-2; and dinosaurs, model GD5010-3.

13. DOUBLE-SIDED JUMBO DOMINOES (GD5018-1 & GD5018-2)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Double-Sided Jumbo Dominoes, models GD5018-1 & GD5018-2, is a math skills game and training system for matching, sorting and assembly for children with physical and cognitive disabilities. The Farm Series, model GD5018-1, depicts traditional dominoes on one side and, when turned over, full-color pictures of cows, ducks, horses, pigs, sheep and trees. The Land & Sea Series, model GD5018-2, features ladybugs, turtles, fish, butterflies, procupines and snails on its oversized domino pieces. The game is designed to facilitate matching skills and other simple math tasks. DIMENSIONS: Each domino measures 4.75 x 2 3/8 x .5 inches.

14. FOOD PYRAMID PUZZLE (MODEL GD350)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Food Pyramid Puzzle, model GD350, is an independent living skills tutorial for children and adults with learning disabilities. The wooden puzzle graphically depicts the basic food groups, gives examples of foods in each group and the recommended daily serving size. The puzzle is designed to stimulate conversation about nutrition and reinforce information about healty diets.

15. GEO CUTTING SET (MODEL GD0218)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Geo Cutting Set, model GD0218, is a math skills game and educational toy for children with learning disabilities. The set consists of a solid wooden carrier and velcro-equipped wooden segments that fit together to form five geometric shapes.

16. GEO SEGMENTS (MODEL GD2021-1) & CIRCULAR SEGMENTS (MODEL GD2021-2)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Geo Segments, model GD2020-1, & Circular Segments, model 2021-2, is an educational toy and form board designed to teach math skills to children with learning disabilities. Geo Segments is a simple wooden board with cutouts of four geometric shapes; a triangle, circle, square and rectangle. Colored wooden pieces corresponding to each shape are either left whole, or cut into halves, quarters and thirds. Circular Segments is the same as Geo Segments, except the board consists of four circles instead of four varied geometric shapes. The segment boards visually demonstrate the concept of fractions as part of the whole.

17. JUMBO MATH BUILDING BLOCKS

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Jumbo Math-Building Blocks is a math skills game for children with disabilities. The 66 multi-shaped blocks can be used to teach simple counting and grouping skills, or enhance fine motor control through simple building activities. The set includes an activity guide filled with additional ideas.

18. JUMBO WOODEN FLOOR PUZZLE CONSTRUCTION SITE (MODEL 41433)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Jumbo Wooden Floor Puzzle Construction Site, model 41433, is a wood puzzle for children with cognitive, visual, or physical disabilities that stimulates questions and strengthens manual dexterity and visual recognition skills. The completed 25-piece puzzle shows a house in the process of construction, with children playing the roles of actual construction workers, painters and foremen. DIMENSIONS: The board measures 50 x 50 x 0.6 centimeters.

19. LIFT AND LOOK PUZZLES

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 04/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Lift and Look Puzzles are large knobbed, wooden puzzles designed for children with disabilities. The four puzzles use simple depictions to demonstate relational concepts, while increasing manual dexterity and visual recognition skills. Each puzzle piece is equipped with a wooden knob for ease in grasping. Cut The Fruit, model 41422, depicts wooden silhouettes of a banana, orange, lemon, apple and peach. When the child lifts up each piece of fruit a second picture underneath depicts the exact same piece of fruit once it has been cut or peeled open. The Breakfast, model 41423, shows a breakfast table laid out with typical foods. When a child lifts up various items, such as the jam jar and the hard boiled eggs, the picture beneath depicts where the food originated, i.e. a box of cherries and a chicken. The Farm, model 41420, includes six farm figures, including a tree, a farmer on a tractor, cows, sheep, a little girl feeding chickens and a farmer with a pitchfork. Questions such as who gives us milk and bread are answered by lifting the figures. Home Sweet Home, model 41421, consists of six silhouettes of various homes and, when lifted, the creatures that live in each one. Dwellings include a cave, a tree, a house, a pond, a doghouse and a beehive. DIMENSIONS: All four boards measure 24 x 33 x 0.9 centimeters.

20. ONE-TWO-THREE (MODEL GD2010-2)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The One-Two-Three, model GD2010-2, is a math skills game for children with learning disabilities. The educational toy consists of a simple, wooden triangular base, three vertical posts of varying height and six large, colored beads; three in blue, two in red and one in yellow. This basic counting game teaches children to place the correct number of beads on the post of corresponding height.

21. PUNCH, DROP, & ROLL

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Punch, Drop, & Roll is an eye hand coordination activity designed for use by children with neurological and visual disabilities. The child hits a wooden lever at the bottom of a tall house with a wooden mallet, sending a wooden roller up through the house and out through a window to the top level of a track. The roller drops down and rolls from one level of the wooden track to another, and, as the child watches, visual tracking skills are also strengthened. DIMENSIONS: 20 x 19.5 x 3.5 inches.

22. SEESAW COUNTER (MODEL GD2038)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Seesaw Counter, model GD2038, is an educational toy designed to enhance math skills as well as size and color recognition, and eye-hand coordination for individuals with a disabilities. The toy consists of a wooden seesaw with two vertical posts on each of its ends, and 12 colored rings. Each post is designed to hold up to three rings. The base is long for increased sensitivity, improving the child's comprehension. By adding and removing weight on the various posts, children learn the seesaw will only balance when an equitable number of rings is distributed.

23. SEQUENCE TILES: ACTION (MODEL 41511)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Sequence Tiles is a pre-reading and cognitive skills tutorial program designed for children with cognitive disabilities. The game is designed as an educational tool to teach children how to comprehend time sequence. The tiles include scenes that depict a cat knocking over a goldfish bowl, a woman starting her day and a tea kettle in preparation for making tea. By describing these sequenced events, a child also strenghtens her or her linguistic skills.

24. SORTING TRUCK (MODEL G2030)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Sorting Truck, model G2030, is a tactile discrimination and visual training activity designed for use by children with visual disabilities. This all wooden truck features rolling wheels and a pull string. The rear truck bed is fitted with a shape sorter board with holes into which each of the included eight wooden pieces fit. The wooden shapes include a cow, a horse, a giraffe, a lion, a bush, a tree, and two people figures. If the sorting board is removed from the truck, the shape pieces fall into the truck and can be retrieved by opening the hood. DIMENSIONS: 12 x 9.5 x 5.25 inches.

25. TACTILE TRAIN (MODEL G5070)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Tactile Train, model G5070, is a tactile discrimination and visual training activity designed for use by children with visual disabilities. The wooden board is printed with a colorful train. Each of the train's windows and wheels offer a space with a specific texture; the accompanying knobs fit in the spaces and textures on either end of each knob correspond to those on the board. This game invites children to explore and discriminate between ten different textures, ranging from sandpaper rough to velvet softness. DIMENSIONS: The board is 13.75 x 4.25 x 2.25 inches.

26. THE TOWN (MODEL 41431)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Town, model 41431, is a large wooden floor puzzle for children with disabilities. Designed to improve manual dexterity and visual recognition skills, the puzzle depicts an active town scenario and several children engaged in various activities. The colorful, 25-piece puzzle can be used to engage children in various question and answer games and other learning exercises. DIMENSIONS: The board measures 50 x 50 x 0.6 centimeters.

27. TIME SEQUENCE (MODEL 41417)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Time Sequence, model 41417, is a cognitive skills tutorial program and wooden puzzle for children with cognitive disabilities. The puzzles consist of various scenes depicted on eight separate tablets. The three-piece puzzle scenes include a boy drinking from a glass with a straw, an apple in the process of being consumed, a flower in various stages of bloom, a candle in various stages of burnout, a sun rising and setting over a village, a crayon drawing a picture, a weather sequence and a tree dropping fruit. The user puts the pictures together in the proper sequence. DIMENSIONS: The eight tablets measure 17 x 12 x 0.6 centimeters.

28. TOUCH N PLAY LOTTO SERIES

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Touch N Play Lotto Series is a math skills game for children with learning disabilities and a perceptual training activity for the visually disabled. The series consists of three games that must be purchased separately: Shapes N Numbers, model GD530; Patterns, model GD531; Fractions, model GD532. Each set consists of four boards and 36 tiles of textured shapes. Based on how each set is used, several skills can be developed, including tactile discrimination, counting, sorting, positioning, color perceptions and recognition, shape discrimination and naming, language development, directionality, memory, matching and fractions.

29. TRIANGLE MODULE SETS (MODELS GD2001-1 & GD2001-2)

    --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Triangle Module Sets, models GD2001-1 & GD2001-2, are form boards and educational toys designed to teach math skills to children with disabilities. The sets are designed to visually demonstrate basic geometric principles using equilateral and isosceles right triangles. Each set emphasizes different angles of degrees with model GD2001-1 designed at 60 degrees across the board, and model GD2001-2 designed to demonstrate 90 degrees, 45 degrees and 45 degrees.

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