An English mother has launched her brand of inclusive dolls, after not finding a swimmer with a hearing aid, for her daughter who is deaf. A great initiative!
While dolls tend to be more inclusive today, all forms of diversity are not yet represented. This is particularly the unfortunate fact of Clare Tawell, an English mother whose little girl is deaf. The mother did not find any dolls with a hearing aid.
"It broke my heart and gave the impression that the company did not consider it important and that it should not be represented", she told the Today site.
Not wishing the girl to feel excluded, she decided to create her own inclusive dolls for different children. Since 2017, in her free time, Clare Tawell has been making swimmers with hearing aids, insulin pumps and sensors for diabetes, or dolls with a cleft palate (harelip) and an angioma. She created her brand, "BrightEars", and markets her products on her Facebook page or on Etsy. She has already sold over 2,000 dolls since she started her project. Clare Tawell hopes that one day children with illnesses and disabilities can walk into a toy store and feel represented. We congratulate her for her initiative.
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