marydell | Too Much TeeVee Brain

The Abilitations catalog is full of all kinds of awesome stuff for kids with special needs, ranging from simple school/focus aids like "pencil fidgets" (things that go on the end of a pencil that you can twiddle around) and wiggle cusions (a cushion that has air in it, so you can't really settle on it and have to wiggle around to stay in place) to a whole range of mobility devices and cool stuff you'll mainly only encounter in the therapist's office.

However, when I saw the "no mess sandbox" on the lower right of this page, I couldn't help but think that the plastic dinosaur in there is really an alien life form, and it's going to escape and turn that kid into a replicator, or give him a sleeping sickness, or one of the other things that invariably happens on Stargate: SG1 and other SF TV whenever they trot out the box with the glovey things in it. So if you're tempted to get this for your child, please don't use it as a biological containment field, because that only leads to heartbreak and needless deaths of extraneous characters.