It’s not every day that the day patients at Blythedale Children’s Hospital in Valhalla get to enjoy a picture book made just for them.

But that’s what they were treated to Tuesday for the hospital's celebration of the 31st anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities.

Author Lindsey Rowe Parker wrote the book “Wiggles, Stomps and Squeezes Calm My Jitters Down” for children with disabilities and sensory differences after her own daughter was diagnosed with autism and she, herself, was diagnosed with ADHD.

Parker got a chance to read the book aloud to nearly 50-day patients at Blythedale on Tuesday.

"I want kids to feel seen when they read this book, and think that, 'Hey, I’m not alone in this,'" said Parker.

To make the book more accessible and fun for children with sensory differences and other disabilities, speech pathologists at the hospital created an adapted version of the book using common items they found around the hospital.

"Many of the children we work with are also learning to use alternative augmentative communication, which means that they’re using ways to communicate in addition to speech, maybe a communication device or icons on a board," said Shannon O'Brien, a speech language pathologist at Blythedale Children’s Hospital. "So we wanted to make our book more interactive for our kids to benefit from a multi-sensory experience."

They say adaptions of books for children with sensory differences can make a world of difference.

"I think it could be life-changing for a kid's access to literacy and their love of books," said Jen Posner, a speech language pathologist at Blythedale Children’s Hospital. "Being able to have a way to connect with a book that is multi-sensory is something they can touch and feel."