Excerpt from: ABC News (click for full article)
A Pennsylvania mother has made it her goal to create dolls with which children of various disabilities can identify.
Connie Feda, 49, of Robinson Township, Pa., started Dolls for Downs in 2010, which has 16 dolls available for kids with Down syndrome.
“This would all be Hannah’s idea,” Feda said of her own daughter, 13. “When she was about 9, she was flipping through a catalog, she saw a doll that looked like her sister. She said, ‘No doll looks like me.’”
The search for a doll Hannah could enjoy was unsuccessful. “All the dolls were not attractive at all,” Feda said. “They didn’t look like her.”
Dolls for Downs was Feda’s alternative to the only “outdated” dolls available for children with Down syndrome. “I knew I couldn’t be the only mom who felt this way,” Feda said.
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