摘要 |
<p>The present invention comprises a teaching toy that invites a child's interaction using an attractive play figure, for example a stuffed animal (2), to present more than one instructional modality (fig. 3) in mixed formats. If the inventive is presented in the form of a stuffed animal (2), the exterior of the animal would have a plurality of indicia (4) that the child could press. The indicia (4) is connected to switching circuitry (fig. 2) and those switches activate a logic circuit (fig. 3) containing preprogrammed instruction modalities (fig. 3) and play methods. Each inventive toy presents at least two distinct instruction modalities (fig. 3), for example, i) stating the name of a symbol and ii) querying a name of a symbol and providing response as a function of the answer given.</p> |