4MyChild: Help and Hope for Life

November 15, 2006

Popular Toys that Have Been Adapted for Special Needs Children

Toys manufacturers are responding to the need for toys and games for special needs kids- you can now buy popular toys that have been modified slightly so that children with special needs can play. The site Enabling Devices has the usual switches and communicators but they also carry a wide variety of mainstream toys that have been adapted for use for children with disabilities, in particular children with cerebral palsy.
They offer such classics as Barbie, stacking toys, bubble toys, games, blocks and large selection of remote controlled figures.

Some of their most popular toys:
Hungry Hippos

Adapted game has 2 paddles attached to the Hippos for easy activation. Just simply bang away and watch as the Hippos race to gobble up as many marbles as possible. A great game to play with friends or family. Easy and tons of fun.

Talking Beauty Barbie

They recently added adaptive Play-Doh Fuzzy Pumper ( which uses a switch) to their extensive catalogue.

See & Say with Base

Classic See and Say toy that has been adapted, the toy has been mounted on a base and angled for easy access. With the adapted T-shaped handle, kids can easily activate the messages. Just point the arrow and pull the handle. Flip the page to choose more animals. It teaches your child about 16 different animals and features two unique flipping pages. The toy plays “Farmer in the Dell” and there is a new quiz mode, easy to mount on tabletops with a clamp.

Adaptive PlayStation controller for Sony PlayStation video game console

Dragon Fly Toys also has a fair amount of of toys for children with special needs and worth checking out.