Playworks is a provider of specialty developmental toys for the early childhood. Based in Pasadena, Calif., the company offers toys for children with universal design to improve sensory awareness, gross motor language and cognitive development among children. These toys offer distraction and multisensory stimulation beneficial to special needs children. The toys provided by the company have categories, such as early toys, manipulatives, special needs and other toys. Additional toys cover a broad spectrum of play opportunities, such as group play, music, games, puzzles, balls, imaginative play and puppets.