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Welcome to adaptivePlay! adaptivePlay is an organization that focuses on promoting the importance of Play for children with special needs. On our site, you will find a diverse selection of toys that will help children with special needs to enhance their physical , cognitive and socio-emotional skills. At adaptivePlay, we strongly believe that Play can be a great complement to therapy by making it fun and easier to adhere to. Featured switch-adapted toys:
What are switch-adapted toys?
Toys can be adapted so that a much larger switch (similar to Ablenet's Jelly Bean Switch) can be plugged into the toy and become the toy's new switch. Now it is much easier for the child to hit/push the larger switch to interact with the toy. There are a couple of ways to adapt toys: 1) interrupting the batteries or 2) interrupting the switch directly. You can only interrupt batteries for more boring toys that only have continuous ON/OFF modes (for example, a doggy that keep barking until you switch it off). At adaptivePlay, we try to adapt cooler interactive toys, and to do so, we need to interrupt the switch of the toy, which is much more complicated, but as a result you can adapt toys that are more exciting to play with. We can adapt more complex toys because we have a robotics engineer from UC Berkeley on staff and he is always interested in pushing the envelope to adapt more complex and cooler toys. Interactive switch adapted toys are much more effective at improving children's understanding of cause and effect (plus they have much more fun!). How can switch-adapted toys be used?
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