First-Ever Blind Barbie Comes With Cane, Braille Box And Textured Clothes
News 18US toymaker Mattel has introduced its first-ever blind Barbie. To accurately represent individuals with blindness or low vision and to maintain the doll’s accessibility, her eye gaze is directed “slightly upwards and outward.” To enable children with limited vision or blindness to feel the clothes on this Barbie doll, Mattel has included textured clothing with the doll. Additionally, Barbie has been written in Braille on the box she arrives in—a language composed of dots with edges, which helps blind people to touch and understand. In a statement to CNN, Debbie Miller of the Royal National Institute of Blind People said it’s great that kids with visual impairments may now play with a Barbie that looks like them. Not only did Barbie debut its first blind doll in the Barbie Fashionistas 2024 series, but this year the company re-established its partnership with the National Down Syndrome Society to present its next model— Black Barbie with Down syndrome.
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