'No child should ever feel as if they aren’t 'normal' or as if they don’t belong'
However, one teacher for deaf/hard of hearing kids noticed that her students weren’t being represented in the toys they played with. Instead of campaigning toy companies to make hearing impaired dolls, she took it into her own hands and made them herself.Using what appears to be puffy paint, California teacher Genesis Politron painted the hearing devices on the babies in sparkly and bright colors. It probably took just minutes but the impact it made on her students was apparently profound.
“I teach preschool and kindergarten for Deaf/Hard of Hearing kids, and my students never see toys that resemble their hearing devices , so I added some to our new baby dolls on my own,” she wrote in a tweet that has since gone viral. “I wish everyone could see their faces playing with these.” She told Scary Mommy that she was ultimately inspired to create the dolls to empower her students. “Being an educator, it’s my job to be as inclusive as possible, but really, I believe it should just be part of being a human being. No child should ever feel as if they aren’t ‘normal’ or as if they don’t belong,” she explained. “I wanted to allow my students to see themselves in toys for once, to feel accepted, and overall be able to have fun playing with toys that look just like them.
The response to her dolls on social media was overwhelming, to say the least. Some people shared their own personal stories about how having dolls that reflected their condition was a game-changer, or how it could have been.
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