Bowie the Weighted Boa Toy by Southpaw Enterprises

Children will love their new friend, Bowie the Weighted Boa Toy, as he brings engaging sparkle and shine along with weighted input. Helping to modify activities and the child's environment, weighted products like Bowie help children with sensory processing disorders (SPD) to better manage their multi-sensory integration challenges.

Constructed of soft, colorful fabric that's decorated with bright sequins, Bowie can be draped across the shoulders or hung around the neck to provide weighted, proprioceptive feedback that helps calm children. This sensory information for the muscles and joints offers deep pressure that's soothing, organizing, and effective for children with sensory issues.

Also doubling as a fidget toy, this weighted boa gives children something to occupy their hands and work off nervous energy as well. Kids will come up with all kinds of creative ways to use Bowie for fun, while he can also lay across their lap for lower body weighted therapy. Enhancing sensory integration helps improve concentration and attention skills while reducing anxiety and fear mitigates fidgeting and can lead to longer seating time for children to complete their activities.

Bowie can assist kids in improving in-seat behavior, attention to task, and task completion, and this weighted therapy is indicated for ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), autism spectrum, pervasive development disorder (PDD), muscular dystrophy (MD), CP (cerebral palsy), and range of other sensory integration needs.

This 5-pound weighted wrap has been developed in tandem with therapist input to ensure the highest therapeutic benefit to its users. Dedicated to developing and manufacturing sensory integration dysfunction and neurodevelopmental products to help kids and adults living with special needs, Southpaw is considered the leader in sensory integration, offering education, insight, and resources that will lead to greater strides and understanding in treating these kinds of disorders. Bowie the Weighted Boa can be used at home, during therapy sessions, at school, and anywhere your child travels to provide calming, deep-pressure input whenever and wherever its needed.