For kids with certain disabilities, such as cerebral palsy, it can be difficult to coordinate the muscles involved in fine motor skills for fingers, hands, and wrists. As a result, these kids may have a hard time playing with toys with small buttons or latches. Adapted toys and switches are toys activated by external and "easier to use" buttons or switches, making it easier for kids with disabilities to play with toys. 

Price

Adapted toys on the market are typically much more expensive than their non-adapted counterparts. Non-adapted toys that would typically cost around $10-20 can cost around $100-200 as an adapted toy. The switches that are used to activate these toys can also cost around $80-200. 

Accessibility

Adapted toys are also not easily accessible, especially to those of low income households. Toy lending libraries, which lend out adapted toys and switches, may face shortages of adapted toys and switches due to the high cost of both. 

Current toy adaptation workshops are workshops that typically adapt off the shelf toys, making them compatible with adapted switches. In these workshops, people typically work on adapting individual toys. They typically take around 2 hours to adapt one toy and require the person adapting the toy to open of the toy and modify the internal circuitry of the toy.  

Our toy adaptation method takes around 30 minutes to complete after printing, does not require the toy to be opened, and can be switched between different toys.