{"id":34654,"date":"2019-12-20T10:27:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=34654"},"modified":"2024-07-17T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T18:00:05","slug":"toys-holiday-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=34654","title":{"rendered":"Tar Heels modify toys for children with disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A new student group called &#8220;Carolina Adapts Toys for Children with Handicaps&#8221; is working to \u201ccatch\u201d the kids who fall through the cracks of the mainstream toy market.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Carolina students are bringing holiday cheer to children with disabilities\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cq_w1rTKac4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Many kids will be getting new toys this holiday season. But for some families, the mainstream toy market doesn\u2019t fit their children\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n<p>A group of Carolina students are working to solve that problem.<\/p>\n<p>Founded last spring by a group of biomedical engineering students in the College of Arts and Sciences &#8212; Drew Mcracken, Michael Weaver, Maddie Dyson and Delany Cowart &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/heellife.unc.edu\/organization\/catch\">Carolina Adapts Toys for Children with Handicaps<\/a> is a student group whose goal is to \u201ccatch\u201d the kids who fall through the cracks of the mainstream toy market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think that toys are a vital part of a kid\u2019s learning foundation and problem-solving skills,\u201d Mcracken said. \u201cOur mission here is to keep a disability from defining a child\u2019s ability to be a child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Group members take toys apart and solder in a new method of actualization \u2014 like a button or a switch that can be attached to a wheelchair or a hospital bed \u2014 so that children with various disabilities can still play with them.<\/p>\n<p>Last semester, they donated 10 toys to Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, and this semester, they set a goal of 50.<\/p>\n<p><em>By Aaron Moger, University Communications<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new student group called &#8220;Carolina Adapts Toys for Children with Handicaps&#8221; is working to \u201ccatch\u201d the kids who fall through the cracks of the mainstream toy 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