Toy Adapting Organizations
Companies that Sell Adapted Toys and Switches
The fastest and most reliable way to acquire an adapted toy is to purchase it from one of these companies:
AbleNet, Inc.
1081 Tenth Ave. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55414
800-322-0956 U.S. & Canada
612-379-0956 outside U.S.
Website: https://www.ablenetinc.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AbleNetInc
Adaptive Tech Solutions
1071 Chickasaw Rd.
Sand Springs, OK 74063
Phone: 1-918-637-7390
Website: https://www.adaptivetechsolutions.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdaptiveTechSolutions
AffordableAdaptions
Po Box 427
Goldendale, Washington 98620
Email: ontiverosaffordableadaptions@gmail.com
Website: https://www.etsy.com/shop/AffordableAdaptions
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/affordableadaptionsaffordableadaptions
Beyond Play
1442A Walnut Street #52
Berkeley, CA 94709
Phone: 877-428-1244
Email: custserv@beyondplay.com
Website: http://www.beyondplay.com
Enabling Devices, Toys for Special Children
385 Warburton Avenue
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
Phone: (914) 478-0960
Toll Free: 1 (800) TEC-TOYS (1-800-832-8697)
Website: https://www.enablingdevices.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/enablingdevices1
Excitim Special Need Toys
31 Wordsworth Drive, Market Drayton
Shropshire TF9 1ND, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)845 900 3860
Website: https://www.special-needs-toys.co.uk/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExcitimExcitim
Flaghouse Inc.
601 FlagHouse Drive
Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604
Phone: (800) 793-7900
Website: https://www.flaghouse.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FlaghouseInc
LDK Adapted Toys
P.O. Box 744
Maineville, OH 45039
Email: ldkadaptedtoys@gmail.com
Website: https://www.ldkadaptedtoys.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ldkadaptedtoysllc
RehabMart
1353 Athens Hwy
Elberton, GA 30635-4484
Phone: 800-827-8283
Email: assistance@rehabmart.com
Website: https://www.rehabmart.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Rehabmart
See Me Thrive!
Web site: https://seemethrive.org/
Contact email: seemethrive@aol.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/See.Me.Thrive.Adapted.Toys/
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Service area: South Mississippi area
Founded: 2020
Program Summary: “We sell toys at our cost and would love to be able to get these toys in hands in kids and/or adults that can use them. We have donated to several agencies in South Mississippi and sell online at seemethrive.org”
Switch Stream
Web site: https://www.getswitchstream.com/shop
Contact email: info@getswitchstream.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getswitchstream
Twitter: https://twitter.com/getswitchstream
TFH (USA) – SpecialNeedsToys.com
4537 Gibsonia Road,
Gibsonia, PA 15044
Phone: 800-467-6222
Website: http://www.specialneedstoys.com/usa/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tfhusa
Universities That Have Toy Adapting Programs
Ohio State University – Toy Adaptation Program (TAP)
Web site: https://u.osu.edu/osutap/
Contact email: eng-eed-tap@osu.edu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/osutap (@osutap)
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Service area: Columbus, OH and the surrounding area
Founded: 2015
Program Summary: The mission of the Toy Adaptation Program (TAP) at The Ohio State University is to provide hands-on educational opportunities to engineering students, while making a positive societal impact through the modification of electronic toys. After starting with a couple of toy adapting workshops in partnership with RePlay for Kids in 2013, the program has grown to be part of the OSU First-Year Engineering laboratory sequence. They are interested in helping other universities establish toy adapting programs.
University of North Florida – UNF Adaptive Toy Project
Web site: https://www.unfadaptivetoyproject.com/
Contact email: mary.lundy@unf.edu
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Service area: Jacksonville, FL and the surrounding area
Founded: 2014
Program Summary: Our mission is to engineer innovative adaptive toy technologies to help engage children with disabilities in play. These toys are low-cost, easily accessible, user friendly, and uniquely tailored to meet the physical and cognitive needs of each individual child.
University of Rochester – Toys for All Tots
Web site: http://www.hajim.rochester.edu/academics/undergraduate/toys-for-all-tots/index.html
Contact email: rachel.monfredo@rochester.edu
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Service area: Rochester, NY and surrounding area (Upstate New York)
Founded: 2017
Program Summary: Toys for All Tots, a student organization at the University of Rochester, accepts lightly used or new battery-operated toys, then adapts them with special switches so special needs children can use them. Their program is based on a program begun at Ohio State University.
University of Washington – HuskyADAPT
Web site: http://depts.washington.edu/adaptuw
Contact email: HuskyADAPT@gmail.com; mollica@uw.edu
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/huskyadapt/
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Service area: Seattle, WA and the surrounding area
Founded: 2016
Program Summary: Foster an inclusive, sustainable, and multidisciplinary community supporting accessible design and play technology through: 1) Toy adaptation: teaching students, engineers, clinicians, and community members toy adaptation and increasing access to adapted toys in Seattle and the state of Washington; 2) GoBabyGo!: providing accessible and cost-effective options for individuals with limited mobility and understanding how early mobility and play can contribute to healthy development and learning, and 3) Design: creating student design teams partnered with community needs experts and teaching students the philosophy of needs-based design. This program was co-founded by an Ohio State University alumni.
Muskingum University
Web site: https://www.muskingum.edu/news/09-1-17/engineering-students-adapt-toys-children-disabilities
Contact email: ssoto@muskingum.edu
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Service area: New Concord, OH and the surrounding area
Founded: 2017
Program Summary: Two students interned at an Ohio State University summer program, and are now teaching 1st year engineering students to adapt toys.
If you know of other programs, or have suggested changes to the information above, please send the information to info@replayforkids.org
Nonprofits That Adapt Toys
USA
RePlay for Kids
Web site: https://replayforkids.org
Contact email: info@replayforkids.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/replay4kids/ (@replay4kids)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/replayforkids (@replayforkids)
Service area: Northeast Ohio
Founded: 1999
Program Summary: RePlay for Kids hosts workshops throughout the year where volunteers are taught how to adapt a battery-operated toy. Workshops are held at businesses, schools, and agencies.
DIYability (Adaptive Design Association Inc.)
Web site: https://www.diyability.org/
Contact email: info@diyability.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DiyAbility/ (@DiyAbility)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/diyability (@diyability)
Service area: New York City
Founded: 2001
Program Summary: Uses technology to increase access for people with disabilities. Holds seasonal toy adapting workshops, providing CEUs for therapists and educators.
Santa’s Little Hackers (MaxMods)
Web site: https://www.santaslittlehackers.com/
Contact email: santaslittlehackers@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/santashackers/ (@santashackers)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/santashackers/ (@santashackers)
Service area: Annual toy adapting event is in Colorado in December. Families can request an adapted toy November 1-15th each year. Adapted toys are shipped to families around the U.S.A. and other countries by Christmas.
Founded: 2014
Program Summary: Holds seasonal toy adapting drives. Ships adapted toys to families around around the world at no cost to the recipient.
Ben Smiles Memorial Foundation
Web site: https://www.bensmiles.org/
Contact email: info@BenSmiles.Org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bensmiles (@bensmiles)
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Service area: Wheaton, IL
Founded: 2016
Program Summary: Ben Smiles is dedicated to enhancing the playing, learning and living of special needs kids and their families by gifting toys and other important devices to kids with disabilities
AdaptoPlay
Web site: http://www.adaptoplay.org/
Contact email: info@adaptoplay.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdaptoPlay (@AdaptoPlay)
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Service area: Johnson City, TN
Founded: 2016
Program Summary: Mission is to create inclusive and independent play for all by innovating mobility, increasing sociability, and fostering community collaboration. Services include adapted toys and a Go Baby Go program.
ATMakers
Web site: http://atmakers.org/
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATMakers/?ref=group_header
Twitter: https://twitter.com/at_makers (@at_makers)
Service area: Palm Harbor, FL
Founded: 2016
Program Summary: ATMakers.org introduces Makers and Assistive Technology (AT) users and give these two communities the tools they need to collaborate. AT users and those who support them desperately need engineers and technologists to help them with everyday tasks. High School STEM and Robotics students, hobbyists & DIY electronics enthusiasts have the skills necessary to create innovative solutions today.
Jericho Adapts Toys
Web site: https://www.jerichoadaptstoys.org/
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Service area: Long Island, NY
Founded: 2018
Program Summary: A group of high school students are adapting a variety of toys and lending them to local school districts
ACCEL
Web site: http://www.accel.org
Contact email: mlevac@accel.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACCELArizona/
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Service area: Phoenix, AZ, Metro area
Founded: 1980
Program Summary: ACCEL was founded in 1980 to provide exceptional educational, therapeutic, behavioral and vocational programs to individuals with special needs, to give them the necessary skills to learn, to work, and to live successfully with dignity and independence.
Switched Adapted Toys
Web site: https://www.switchedtoys.org/
Contact email: switchedtoys@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pascalespals
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Service area: Mid-Missouri area
Founded: 2018
Program Summary: An organization in Mid-Missouri, looking to provide love and support to children and families by providing switched adapted toys and “making play possible.”
See Me Thrive!
Web site: https://seemethrive.org/
Contact email: seemethrive@aol.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/See.Me.Thrive.Adapted.Toys/
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Service area: South Mississippi area
Founded: 2020
Program Summary: “We sell toys at our cost and would love to be able to get these toys in hands in kids and/or adults that can use them. We have donated to several agencies in South Mississippi and sell online at seemethrive.org”
FairPlay
Web site: https://www.fairplaylibraries.org/
Contact email: fairplaylibraries@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FairPlay-111530280245438/
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Service area: Nashville, TN
Founded: 2019
Program Summary: “Creating adapted toy libraries in Tennessee and beyond to make play accessible, affordable and independent for kids with disabilities.”
Outside USA
MERU (Medical Engineering Resource Unit)
Web site: https://meru.org.uk/
Contact email: info@meru.org.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MERU.org (@MERU.org)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MERUcharity/ (@MERUcharity)
Service area: Surrey, UK
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Program Summary: MERU is an orgaization in the United Kingdom that designs and builds assistive equipment for people with disabilities.
TAD
Web site: https://tad.org.au/project/switch-adapted-toys/
Contact email: info@tad.org.au
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tadnswdisabilityservices/ (@tadnswdisabilityservices)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tadnsw (@TADNSW)
Seervice area: New South Wales, Australia
Founded: 1975
Program Summary: TAD changes lives of people living with a disability by providing personalised equipment, technology and services. Our core workforce are skilled volunteers who design and build custom equipment to help people achieve their goals.
If you know of others, please send the information to info@replayforkids.org