Toys for a Child That Needs Sensory Input

Are you working with an occupational therapist? If so, he/she should be able to give you some input on which toys will greatly benefit your daughter's specific needs.

From what I recall, my son really enjoyed the following toys:

Teeter-totter
Slide
What's In Ned's Head? (game)
3-wheeled scooter
Hippity Hop
Musical Instruments
Jump Start Trampoline
Water & Sand Activity Center
Bouncy House
Musical Activity Table
Inflatable Pit with all of those big colorful plastic balls
Edushape sensory balls
Dress Up Clothes
Lucky Ducks Game
Cranium Hullabaloo

Hope this helps.

Q

Great ideas from everyone. Also, collect all the family's wrappings from the holidays. Paper and foil wrapping paper, tissue, bows and ribbon, various textures of plain and wrinkly cardboard, packing noodles and bubble wrap are so much fun to play with and are great for gluing, adding even more sensory input! Boxes can be glued together for tall structures with all the other fixin's above used to make architectural features. The tons of ads in the mail are great to use for cutting or tearing out pictures of people for the windows in these tall structures. These pictures offer a smooth, almost slippery surface, adding another texture. Really large boxes offer a place to put a pillow for a quieter resting place, or bubbly wrap for a noisy pop-it palace.

Moon sand? This isn't a "toy" idea, but have you ever let her do letters in pudding or shaving cream on your kitchen table?

One of the big, vibrating pens.

My son cannot get enough of his lite brite cube. I bought the cube because it has sides for others to work on at the same time. I also got him the FAO Schwarz floor piano they sell at Toys r Us. The jumping on it helps with the vestibular & proprieceptive issues he has.
There is a book called The Out-of-Sync Child has Fun: Activities for Kids with Sensory Integration Dysfunction - by Carol Stock Kranowitz. it has lots of ideas for things to stimulate or calm them (depending on what satisfies) with things you can use around the home.

Leap Frog refrigerator abc letters. They cover touch, hear and see. They, also, teach the letters and the sounds they make. They've been one of the best toys my children have ever had because they are fun, safe and educational.

Tools to help her cook with you. Stepstool, apron etc.