The Lindy-Lu Soft Sensory Bag is a fun, interactive and sensory filled way of allowing children and special needs children to learn, explore, promote imagination, play, and overcome defensiveness to tactile stimulation.
This toy allows special needs children to interact in a way that would normally be deemed too messy for them, like with an open activity table, and gives them a soft, comfortable and recognizable component that will allow them to feel comfortable to explore and play. This toy has many sensory components. At it's filled weight, it offers weighted therapy, for children with many diagnosis who need weighted therapy that gives important proprioceptive input. With this, children will feel the security and balance that can reduce hyperactivity while also allowing increased body awareness in a self calming manner.
For young, normally developing children, this toy offers a fun, interactive way to develop their tender imaginations through visual and tactile stimulation in their early developmental years.
* Weighted therapy vests and blankets are...well....ugly looking in their denim blue and patchwork, with weighted bumps here and there to weigh down the blanket or vest. They also do not offer anything to be entertained with. When a child gets over or under excited and needs to calm down, putting a weighted vest on them only solves part of the problem. Their little minds are going a million miles a minute. With the Lindy-Lu bag, a child feels the benefit of the weighted bag, as well as having his/her arms snugly placed in soft sweatshirt arms (more proprioceptive feedback that will help calm a child) as well as, here is the kicker, engaging the child's mind by the things he/she touches and plays with, focusing the child on what is in front of him/her.
* Weighted therapy items on the market are not only basic in design and non-interactive, they are also VERY expensive with a small vest starting around $100.00! That is not even including tax and shipping! I even saw a weighted lap blanket on the market, 4 pounds in weight with 2 small little pockets on the top for a child to place his/her hands with puffy paint inside the pocket for the child to feel....Really? Guess how much that 4 pound, lap blanket is going for! $89.95 for a 9"x18" lap blanket!!! Special needs therapy items and toys should not be over priced just because they can be!
* Lindy-Lu bags are designed to catch the eye of the child and focus them to the center of the bag and what is inside, with bold or bright colors that have great colors and designs of ribbon to add the contrast needed to catch the eye of a child and help children with low vision to be able to see the contrast.
* The Lindy-Lu bag comes with over 30 different individual toys in every bag, and many more pieces in each size of bag. These items have been specially chosen to offer your child many different textures, sizes, shapes and even activities!
