#diversity toys

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Why Sensory Toys Are Essential For Child Development And Therapy

Sensory toys have started to gain a lot of momentum in recent years, especially when it comes to conversations about therapeutic practices or child development. These toys are more than mere playthings; they are tools that help your child engage one or multiple senses – sound, sight, taste, touch, and smell.

While these toys are great for all kids, they hold a special significance for children and adults with sensory processing challenges. However, since this concept is still pretty new, today’s article will help explain these toys, how they can benefit your child, and everything in between.

What Are Sensory Toys?

Sensory toys are special needs tools that are designed to help stimulate a sensory experience. Unlike traditional toys, autism toys are crafted to help develop and engage a specific sensory response.

Whether it is a visually stimulating light-up toy or a soft toy that feels comfortable in the hand, each sensory toy will uniquely stimulate different senses. This sensory stimulation can range from improved tactile feedback to auditory or visual experiences that are both therapeutic and engaging.

What Are Its Benefits?

Sensory toys offer children many advantages, but they can also be great tools for adults or individuals with autism. Sensory toys can help you enhance your gross and fine motor skills, improve cognitive skills, promote emotional development, and encourage creativity and imagination.

Sensory toys like stress balls can also provide a calming and soothing effect, reducing anxiety and stress in individuals feeling overwhelmed.

Top 4 Types Of Sensory Toys

Sensory toys come in various options, each catering to a different sensory need. Some popular categories include:

1.     Proprioceptive And Vestibular Toys

These sensory toys are focuse on spatial orientation and balance. Examples of such toys include swings, balance boards, and trampolines. These toys are essential for all kids who need help with coordination and body awareness.

2.     Auditory Toys

Sensory toys that produce a sound, like noise-making gadgets or musical instruments, fall into the auditory toys category. These toys help cater to all kids who respond well to auditory input, helping them with sensory and auditory processing.

3.     Visual Toys

Visual sensory toys are built to help stimulate sight and can range from light-up toys to lava lamps. These toys are particularly beneficial for all kids who find comfort in visual stimuli and are visually oriented.

4.     Tactile Toys

Tactile sensory toys are designed to promote touch sensation. These toys include textured balls, fidget spinners, and squishy toys. Tactile sensory toys help improve your fine motor skills and can help offer a calming experience via tactile stimulation.

While these are some of the most popular options in the market, there are several other options that you can consider getting as well. If you have difficulty understanding all these types of sensory toys and are looking for some guidance, feel free to speak with a professional therapist for clarity. These professionals will have all the knowledge and experience needed to help you understand how these toys work and determine which ones will benefit you or your children the most.

[steelajeeg]

Astro Boy Student

- from Astro Boy Diverse Life

- by Pop Mart

What a stunning little figure. This Astro Boy toy from Pop Mart wasn't commercially released in my country (due to licensing agreements) so I was very lucky to find a few blind boxes locally.

I love the variations in textures and paint finish, it really evokes the fabric on metal look - and the big glossy boots. And great gesture sculpting.

It's a beautifully unique toy of a classic pop culture icon.

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[knightwithakay]

big sword practice

[deadboystims]

✦ ┊ toy bonnie & mangle stimboard!!

sources : 1 , 2 , 3 ┊ 4 , 5 , 6 ┊ 7 , 8 , 9

[detentiontrack]

I think it's really funny how in thanks to them, everyone just uses he/they pronouns for the collector despite having just met them and not being told his pronouns once. Like they just all saw this little creature causing chaos and clocked him as having pronouns

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

writing new characters for supernatural but british and this story wants so bad to say something about the concept of migration and immigration and the consequences of leaving your home and building a new one. And I don't know what it wants to say about that or why

[reel-fear]

Honestly, every single time the whole 'poppy playtime is a bendy rip-off' stuff ever shows up I find it all extremely unconvincing and silly.

For one thing, rip-off usually is meant to imply that it's a cheap lazy copy of a better more polished thing, and uh. Sorry but even from chapter 1? Poppy Playtime is a better game than Bendy, it has a simple but understandable story, the game manages to be thrilling, creepy, and very intense at times... I mean that Huggy chase in the vents ALONE puts it way above Batim for me.

I mean BATDR had the most slow stupid chase I've ever seen [and every other encounter with the ink demon is text telling u he's there and then a timer goes down and u get jumpscared] and batim's chases were either silly or just not nearly as theatric or terrifying as that.

When making the vent sequence I mean not only is it absolutely horrifying to realize how fast Huggy is in there but also it's so theatric and cool? The fact that you round a corner after thinking you escaped only to see a terrifying animation of that thing crawling toward you is awesome! I wish Bendy had stuff like that!

And all the stuff it shares with Bendy are generic things Bendy ripped from other horror games/media anyways. I'm not saying Poppy Playtime isn't inspired by Bendy I for sure think it is but Bendy is such a generic story that somehow fails to do tropes 100 other horror games have done any comparison only makes Poppy Playtime look better.

"It has employees being sacrificed for their company" That is not a concept Bendy invented, literally look at any of the sci-fi horror series Bendy is very inspired by. This is literally a twist in the original Alien.

"It has a scary woman forcing you to do tasks for her" Once again, not a concept Bendy invented, a scary mysterious person forcing you to do fetch-quests is a concept found in tons of horror media. And at least Poppy Playtime gave you a chase with her and let you defeat her, look at poor malice. She's barely on screen for more than 10 minutes before she gets stabbed.

"It has a cult worshipping the monster" This is something tons of horror games and media have done too. I mean In The Tall Grass has a guy who worships a giant magical rock in the middle of a grass maze, Bioshock [which Bendy has only been taking more and more direct inspiration from while failing to grab any of the compelling parts] also had a lot of themes of religion and cult-ish behavior, almost every horror media franchise has at one point done a cult thing.

Bendy couldn't even come up with a reason Sammy worships the ink demon, the best motivation we've ever gotten is just that 'he's crazzyyyy the ink made him insaneeee'. Who is the cheap rip-off here?

At least Poppy Playtime gave their cultist a motive for worshipping the monster + a proper boss fight that feels intense and looks awesome! Bendy didn't even let you kill Malice [she got stabbed in front of you and then just collapsed on the floor how thrilling] meanwhile you get to kill three of the villains in Poppy Playtime and the gameplay and action in those scenes have only gotten better as the game went on.

I mean Sammy walks into a room and goes "AAA SCARY I'M BEING MURDERED" then later shows up and for NO REASON sees a normal human man and assumes it's the ink demon before once again someone else kills him for you. In Poppy Playtime you defeat Catnap as he floods the world with this horrible nightmare-inducing gas that intensifies the color palette and his design. Fight off versions of him that are illusions that you need your flare gun for, then watch in a wonderful animation as he mistakes the monster for his savior before getting killed by it, in a brutal way I might add, which game are we accusing of being cheap, lazy garbage again?

I just find this argument to be people who Really Really need to find a reason to hate Poppy Playtime which I think is silly. The devs being weird, shady people is already enough reason to dislike the game, you don't need to invent reasons why secretly every part of the game is malicious or bad. But esp when I see Bendy fans saying they don't support Poppy Playtime or dislike it bc of its devs or even saying its cringe ummmm.

I have bad news about the fact Bendy's devs are worse and it took not one, but TWO over an hour long videos to cover it all. Plus the Bendy games are just the worse games in every aspect, if I could sell my batim copy for a copy of Poppy Playtime I wouldn't hesitate at all.

Saying this as a bendy fan, we have no right to be super judgy towards Poppy Playtime. If Poppy Playtime is embarrassing cringe, Bendy is too and is way more embarrassing of an interest. We shouldn't spread misinformation just because we all want to hate Poppy Playtime, you can dislike Poppy Playtime without making up a bunch of nonsense to justify it.

Honestly seeing people just blatantly be unfairly mean to Poppy Playtime only makes its critics look worse and makes it hard to take any backlash to the games seriously. Because surprise surprise if you spread misinformation to make a point people will quickly stop listening to Anything you have to say bc they won't trust you're telling the truth anymore.

[vintageadsmakemehappy]

1993 Teddy Ruxpin magazine advertising

[sassmill]

Again again thinking

[anotterthatlovestoys]

was at target the other day infodumping to my cousin about toys and explained to her that Monster High has new molds with body diversity and I was like "this ones taller, this ones fatter" and she was like SHGDHHGHHHHH SHHH and dragged me to a different aisle (there was nobody in the aisle with us even??)

and I was like fat doesn't have to be a bad word its just a descriptor. and they're not even really fat they're like instagram "thicc" fat. not everyone is stick thin. and she said she felt uncomfortable because the "fatter" character I was talking about was the "only" black one

aka Catty Noir who is just the one with literally black skin

as opposed to any of the other characters with brown skin...

[diversityintoys]

How Sensory Toys Can Improve Your Adult Life

Since sensory toys have the word “toy” in it doesn’t mean its only for children. Whether you are looking for stress relief, improved focus, or ways to enhance your occupational therapy sessions, sensory toys can offer adults a wide range of advantages.

Today’s article will help highlight a few critical ways sensory fidget toys can positively impact an adult’s life.

They Offer Relaxation

we live in a fast-paced world where finding enough time to unwind and relax is critical for our wellbeing. Sensory toys can help you quickly achieve a state of relaxation that promotes mindfulness. When you engage with a sensory fidget toy, you can better focus on the present moment, feel calm, and feel much less stressed.

Physical Rehabilitation

Many health professionals also incorporate sensory toys like balance boards and stress balls into their physical rehabilitation programs to help enhance coordination, motor skills, and proprioception. These toys offer you ideal sensory feedback that can help improve your balance, movement, and physical well-being.

Improved Concentration

Difficulties with concentrating and focusing are also common challenges many adults face nowadays. Sensory toys can enhance your attention span and ensure you stay on task. These toys offer an ideal sensory experience that can engage your senses and allow you to redirect your focus more productively.

Stress And Anxiety

Most people also lead a very jampacked life, balancing work and personal life. It often results in stress and anxiety. Sensory toys offer a unique way to help deal with these feelings and promote calm. Using sensory toys for adults, you can quickly redirect your focus from something stressful and try to have some peace of mind. These toys can also help you lower your cortisol levels and find comfort in distraction from your daily worries.

If you want to learn more about the advantages of using sensory toys for adults or want to find one for yourself, feel free to speak with an occupational therapist for guidance.

[mabelmidnight-takeover]

thinking about how if i had chosen architecture for college I'd have probably spent the last three years making a percy jackson themed park just for funsies

[paddysnuffles]

Bigots: I don't buy racially diverse or disabled dolls for my kid because kids should get dolls that look like them.

Me:

Bigots: Wait, no--

Friendly reminder that "kids need representation" and "kids need toys that don't look like them" are not mutually exclusive truths. They need both.

[dangans-ur-ronpas]

enough figurine merch of big tiddied women in thigh highs and revealing skirts. give me a rag doll of that bastard right there so i can run that fool over in my car

[nostalgia-tblr]

"Oh but *I* don't get sucked in by The Capitalism, I only bought this one item that directly involves My Fave."

Yeah, so do most people. Endless merch streams are not made with the expectation that a significant number of people will buy *all* of it, they know most people will buy one or two items and nothing else, the point of making so much was it's more likely they'll have made those two items you desperately needed in order to scratch your fannish itch. If you want that [character] mug then fine, buy it, have fun with it, but you haven't somehow tricked The Capitalism by not buying every single item with the right logo on it.

[autisticmight]

getting into the source material of my hyperfixation so i can at least be weird about it faithfully