How To Adapt Toys For Children With Disabilities

With Christmas right around the corner, do you often wish there were more disability-friendly toys? Ever wonder how you could adapt popular toys for your disabled child to enjoy? The good folks at Nationwide Children’s Hospital spent the weekend showing parents how to modify existing toys with disability-friendly features. Read more about this process in our latest "In The News" article.

http://www.cpfamilynetwork.org/in-the-news/how-to-adapt-toys-for-children-with-disabilities

DIY Ipad Stylus for those with Cerebral Palsy

One of our community members shared this awesome DIY Ipad Stylus tutorial.  Cerebral Palsy can severely impair motor skills and often leave a person unable to control their limbs in precise manners.  With the recent use of touchscreen devices for education, entertainment, and communication it has become imperative that these motor skills limitations are overcome.  This is really an awesome modification to simple household items, that has allowed a person with a disability to actually be able to use a touchscreen device with precision and ease.  Do any of you have similar methods of bridging the motor skills gap?

http://arearrangedlife.com/2012/08/16/adapted-stylus-straight-from-the-kitchen-sink/