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Article: New toys help kids understand their illness
- Article from:
- Central Penn Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 10, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Journal Publications Inc. Aug 10, 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Being sick is rarely fun, but children who suffer from asthma just might enjoy playing with the new toys that are aimed at helping them to learn about their disease.
Soon to be sold are dolls, board games and a workbook, all conceived and designed by a new local company Learning Tek. (The company was formerly known as Learning Works.) The small business, based in Elizabethtown, is owned and operated by a trio of women who initially met as playmates in kindergarten.
The three reunited in January when two of them, Ronda G. Stump and Leslie A. Bootay, began exchanging ideas about how to help Stump's daughter, Abby, learn about her asthmatic condition. The two discovered a number of videos and ...
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