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Speaker 1: It's the first day the Drake Police Department is deploying

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Speaker 1: new sensory kits that can be used to help kids

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Speaker 1: or even adults with communication challenges.

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Speaker 2: Really going to be helpful for the officers communicating with

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Speaker 2: folks with disabilities.

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Speaker 1: Best Police Chief Peter Bartlett showing me one of several

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Speaker 1: backpacks donated to the police and fire departments filled with

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Speaker 1: things that provide both comfort and tools to communicate.

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Speaker 2: We have those communication cards where they can point to

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Speaker 2: how they feel and we can point to what we're

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Speaker 2: asking them, what your name, do you have an ID

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Speaker 2: cod things like that.

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Speaker 1: Sixteen year old Maya Gillis of New Hampshire has donated

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Speaker 1: homemade kids to about forty departments across New England so far.

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Speaker 1: As someone who experiences epilepsy and whose twin brother is

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Speaker 1: on the autism spectrum, she helps these kits help others

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Speaker 1: like themselves in drac It. James Rojas w b Z,

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio