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A unique child: Disability Dolls - Face to face
Nursery World,
1 October 2008
Well-meaning early years settings may provide dolls like disabled children for the sake of inclusive practice, but it could end up doing more harm than good, as Mary Evans hears from the experts.
Disability dolls are of limited value in early years settings if practitioners are not trained to introduce them to the children appropriately, according to leading experts. Research has found that children with little experience of disability do not understand the toys. They will, for example, use toy crutches as guns and hearing aids as headphones. The advent of Down's syndrome dolls from America has prompted a debate...
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