- Shadow Buddies - rag dolls for kids with medical needs, such as a doll with an implanted (bacoflen) pump, and dolls with diabetes, burns, cancer, ostomy, port-a-cath and orthopedic issues
- Sew-Able Dolls - dolls with prosthetics, walkers, wheelchairs, cructhes, bald from chemo, etc. Accessories like wheelchair and PT equipment fit American Girl Dolls. (Seen to the left.)
- American Girl Dolls - offers a wheelchair and underarm crutches as accessories.
- Beyond Play - and other special needs catalogs offer this collection of rag dolls with various disabilities such as blind, deaf, wheelchair user, etc.
- Downi Creations - offers baby dolls who have Down Syndrome.
- Down Syndrome Dolls - offers older looking dolls who have Down Syndrome (seen below).
- Patty Cake Dolls - has rag dolls with Down Syndrome, visual impairment and in wheelchairs.
- Camp Venture - also has dolls who have Down Syndrome called, "Dolly Downs" and "Danny Downs".
- Hands On Learning has (very expensive) special needs dolls designed to be used to train medical and school staff on trachs, pic lines and g-tubes. Which begs the questions, "Why don't be use standard baby dolls and give them g-tubes and such our selves?
- PI Bear - Physically Inconvenienced Bear uses a wheelchair.
- Angel Bear Pump Stuff - offers a mini, stuffed insulin pump to use with any doll or stuffed animal.
Resources and ideas for teachers of learners with severe, profound, intensive, significant, complex or multiple special needs.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Special Needs Dolls
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