Are you looking for toys designed with special needs in mind?
Disability-led design benefits everyone, and the spread of sensory thinking into mainstream play is a sign of that. TFH (formerly Toys For the Handicapped) has been part of this movement since 1983: our focus is the severe and profound end of the sensory spectrum, a specialist sub-category often called special needs toys.
TFH Special Needs Toys is a family business operating in the UK, US, Canada and Sweden, and our British made sensory equipment enlivens special schools, therapists, and families worldwide.
The wider sensory market is dominated by fidgets which have achieved mainstream status, (meaning our work is done). TFH remain immersed in the complex end of the sensory world manufacturing specialist fun equipment that the mainstream have not (yet) discovered the joys of.
Specialist product areas include multi-sensory environments, sensory integration apparatus (AKA swings), & deep pressure equipment; our range boasts hundreds of playthings.
TFH believe in the power of play. For generations we have understood that our job is to overcome obstacles to that power. While people with special needs continue to need specialised toys to access the power of play, our perspective is that play itself is misunderstood by modern culture, and that TFH Special Needs Toys may be able to help reconnect the world somewhat.
TFH believe in the power of play. For generations we have understood that our job is to overcome obstacles to that power. While people with special needs continue to need specialised toys to access the power of play, our perspective is that play itself is misunderstood by modern culture, and that TFH Special Needs Toys may be able to help reconnect the world somewhat.
Our tools are sometimes the ticket to connect with people who truly inhabit the sensory world of play, who are not drunk on the values extracted from it by the toy industry.
Play is a medicinal balm, rub it on, we hope it works for both of you.
Play is a medicinal balm, rub it on, we hope it works for both of you.