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Find the Right Toy Rating

The Find the Right Toy (FTRT) rating system is designed to assist you in determining how a toy may help your child’s development. The overall FTRT rating reflects the toys potential to impact a child’s development. All the toys placed on this website have been deemed to be educationally or developmentally impressive.

The FTRT rating reflects two values:

A professional assessment of the toys value as it relates to the primary skill area in which it was placed
The toys ability to potentially maintain your child’s participation. This rating does not reflect the quality of the toy itself.

All toys with the FTRT rating have been child tested and given an overall rating. The ratings are defined as:

A

The toy addresses the primary skill area thoroughly and uniquely engaging majority of the children with little adult encouragement required.

B

The toy addresses the primary skill area effectively and the children maintained participation with few words of encouragement needed from an adult.

C

The toy addresses the primary skill area that it is placed into but did not hold the children’s attention without adult encouragement to continue playing.

We recommend you assist your child when playing in order for him/her to fully benefit from the toys and games you have selected. Adult prompting refers to how much the parent and/or caregiver has to cue the child to stay and play the game.

The key to finding “the right toy” is to recognize your child’s unique strengths and keep in mind his level of comfort with all the skills required.

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