With 50+ games and more on the way now is the best time to get a Timocco package! We’re offering 20% off all home edition packages for a limited time - so if you’re looking to purchase, renew, or know anyone who is, we’d recommend getting started right away! Just click here and don’t forget to use coupon code ‘newyear’. This discount means Timocco’s games are now more accessible to families, and enables more kids with special needs to get Timocco at home. We’re currently offering even … [Read more...]
Fish Spell – Another fun new game to help develop early learning skills!
We’ve got yet another new game to tell you about this week - our new Fish Spell game is up and running - well, swimming - online! You might have already guessed - Fish Spell is all about spelling! Kids have to choose a letter displayed on fish swimming past to complete a word on a treasure chest on the ocean floor. When the word’s complete, the chest opens! (Here’s a handy tip: the word is spoken at the beginning of the game, but if you hover over the cute little snail on the bottom left of … [Read more...]
Timocco Time is Fun Time!
We’re proud to announce that it’s been a great year here at Timocco, which means we’re able to lower prices and make Timocco’s games more accessible to families, and enable more kids with special needs to get Timocco at home! Our home edition is now available for as little as $13 per month (for a 12 month package), $17 per month (6 months) or $19 per month (3 months). In addition, we’re currently offering attractive discounts on Timocco packages for players invited by their … [Read more...]
Shoot for the Stars in 2015 with our New Year’s Game
Here at Timocco we’re ushering in the new year with yet another new game we’ve been working on! On the fun side: ‘Shoot for the stars’ is all about a multi-colored cannon that shoots fireworks. Players need to aim the cannon at the target that’s the same color before the fireworks launch to score. But don’t hit the wrong target, those rockets might bounce back… watch out for that! On the skills-building side: Shoot for the stars works across a range of motor and cognitive skills: … [Read more...]
What a fun year it’s been at Timocco!
The year’s almost over and here at Timocco we’re looking forward to 2015, and hoping it’ll be as good as a year as the one that’s finishing up. We had a great year, we hope you did too, and we’d like to tell you a little about what we did this year: We launched six new games in 2014 - Ladybug, Cookie Mania, Dig it, Hungry Frogs, Fish Spell and Feed the Rabbits, games that work on a range of skills, including executive function, motor control and motor planning, timing, early learning and … [Read more...]
A Big Thanks to the BIRD Foundation!
Here at Timocco we’re elated to announce plans for a joint project with Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital to develop and research a cost-effective web-based therapeutic game platform for children with physical challenges. The project is thanks to a grant from the BIRD Foundation, which promotes research and development in industries that mutually benefit Israel and the United States. The project is aimed to enable physiotherapists, clinicians and parents to better control and … [Read more...]
Christmas Trail Game Therapy Activities #3
Our plan this week is based around our Christmas Trail game, which encourages children to explore cause and effect and to improve range of motion. And there’s only a week left till Christmas so this will be our last therapy session of fun activity ideas to tell you about until then! (If you’re looking for more ideas and missed our last 2 therapy ideas posts, you can find them here and here.) Christmas Trail - Game #3: We suggest you start off playing Timocco’s Christmas Trail game - see if … [Read more...]
Surf’s Up! – Check Out Our New Website
Well, if you’re already here and reading this you may have noticed… our new website is up and running! We humbly invite you to peruse, surf and browse through our new matrix of pages designed to explain how Timocco works and who it’s suitable for, in clear and clarifying prose. So what’s new? We’ve added a detailed ‘skills’ section, explaining how playing Timocco games develops individual core motor, communication and cognitive skills. You can also find information on how Timocco games … [Read more...]
Ladybugs premiere proves most popular game launch ever!
Since our Ladybugs game premiered Nov 27 we couldn’t help but notice how quickly it’s been chalking up game plays… more than any other new game launch before. So we wanted to say thanks to all those who’ve been helping the Ladybugs over the bridge and get home! If you haven’t had time to check out the game yet you can log-in here and get straight to it - the aim of the game is to move the bridge so the ladybugs can get across, and make sure not to let the annoying mosquitoes follow … [Read more...]
Christmas Games Therapy Activities #1
To go with our three new Christmas games this holiday season our in-house OT team has put together three session plans, one based around each game, that we’ll post here each week leading up to the holiday. We hope you enjoy them! Xmas Album - Game #1 The Xmas Album game aims to improve upper body strength, range of motion, bilateral coordination, movement efficiency, attention and perception skills. We suggest starting off your session (of around 45 minutes) with about 10-15 minutes of … [Read more...]