May 11, 2017.
A simple spinning top with an improved design is all the rage in offices, schoolyards, and even among autistic children. This toy, the fidget spinner, is landing in France.
A spinning top to help autistic children focus
The “fidget spinner”, also known as the “hand spinner”, is invading French playgrounds, but is already all the rage in the United States, Switzerland, Belgium and is likely to achieve the same success. in France soon. This spinning top with an atypical look is a gadget which, in itself, is strictly useless, except to occupy the hands on which they can turn, very quickly and for a very long time. Imagined by an American mother, this gadget could also have therapeutic virtues.
It is besides the parents of children with autism who really popularized this toy which, at first, had some difficulty in gaining a foothold in the market. In these children, fidget spinners improved their ability to concentrate and communicate.
A toy for young and old alike
Asked by the CBS channel, a doctor also confirms that ” therapists have been using this kind of object for a long time to help patients focus on what they are doing “.
So if she didn’t invent anything, the creator of the fidget spinner seems to have offered the public a real tool to help concentration which, in addition to arriving in schoolyards, seems to be making its way into the professional world. In any case, this is indicated by the latest ranking from Forbes magazine, which voted it “office toy 2017” last year. ” A few of us noticed that we left our desks less, focusing our energy in the spinner instead of taking a trip to the coffee machine. “, Notes the magazine, according to remarks taken up by FranceTVinfo.
Sybille Latour
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