All kids love characters that look like them and have experiences they can relate to. When you have a disability , its harder to find childrens books, toys and dolls that tell your story.

In her spare time, a mom from the U.K. is fixing that: Clare Tawell, a medical radiation technologist, modifies the U.K. equivalent to North American Elf on the Shelf dolls , Elves Behavin Badly , so they have facial or limb differences or medical equipment, such as insulin pumps or hearing aids, that make them more relatable to kids with a range of disabilities and medical diagnoses.

She gets really specific for each elf , for example recreating the exact location and type of cleft lip or palate, or the specific type of feeding tube a child uses.