Suitable present for 2yo child with SN

[frogs]

Please can you experts give me some assistance here?

I need to buy a present for a child with microcephaly who will be two in August. She has learning difficulties and is just starting to speak, apparently. To make life more complicated, the family are not English-speaking, so I don't have a very clear idea of what she can and can't do.

Anyone any ideas?

I just posted on my traffic lights thread that I bought the Neurosmith music blocks from ELC for £18 reduced from £30. THese were suggested by other MNers ages ago and they're fab. Maybe the Neurosmith big cube thing too? Look at ELC website. Are they in the UK, might make a difference to what size gift you buy.

DK touch and feel picture books are a big hit with my children, my dd with DS who is now 3 still enjoys them as she doesn't have the verbal understanding for story-led picture books. And ds, 7 months and typical, loves them too and chuckles loudly when we look at one. They're £1.99 or so each from amazon.

touch anf feel books

shape sorter

dollies, my dd has microcephaly and is just into 'normal' things really. She is mad on dollies, prams, play-food and tea-sets etc

That's great, thanks everyone! The touchy-feely books are a good idea, and I could even Amazon them to her.

For now I've just nipped out and found a lovely Winnie-the-Pooh themed Megablox set, age range 1-5, which should cover most eventualities.

Other suggestions still welcomed -- I know what you mean about 'normal' things, Fio, but I don't want to look a prat by giving her something too babyish. Then again there's not point giving something much too complicated, either, hence my question.

Ha, I was just going to suggest a nice doll, but Fio2 has beaten me to it!

sorry wasnt being picky frogs I would just steer clear of complicated jigsaws, threaders and the like. Building blocks are always good

my dd2 (age 3) has microcephaly and really likes music, there's a good toy from ELC called Animal Orchestra where you touch the animals and they start to play. It's very simple and fun. She also loves the touchy feely books.

We did have the Neurosmith music blocks too, but tbh it was much too difficult for dd and she wasn't interested (sorry davros )

Hmm, the Neurosmith cubes are rather more exciting for me I think than DD or DS. I think they're very clever but its lost on them I like the sound of the touchy feely books anyway so I'm going to look at them too, any novelty....