Adapted Materials

Provide choices in adapted materials for tasks, such as different sizes or textures of items, to accommodate varying abilities and preferences.

The objects that are used for practical life ...are objects used where a [person] lives and which he sees employed in his own home, but they are especially made to a size that he can use.

Maria Montessori

Resources for this Guideline

Examples

  • Make pureed food more appetising using food moulds
  • Use contrasting toilet seats as all white bathrooms are difficult for the visually impaired
  • Large format digital clock
Pureed food looks more appetising using food molds
Contrasting toilet seat
Large format digital clock