By now, you've bought the easy gifts. Now its time to get serious. Now is the time to set yourself apart from the herd. Now its time to be a hero to a special needs child.

The Amazing Animals Sing & Go Choo Choo by Fisher Price is a winner. It has music, lights, and rolls around the living room while singing about its four-legged cargo.

If noise and lights set your little one off, a train is still a winner. The traditional train set your father built in the garage is a great gift if motion is good, but noise and lights are too much stimuli.

FlagHouse, Inc. has an exhaustive selection of educational toys for special needs children. The FlagHouse sells assistive technology toys, clinical furniture, exercise toys and equipment, and aquatics just to name a few. FlagHouse boasts gifts for every size budget and every type kid. Rumor has it that Santa is a regular user of the FlagHouse website.

Specialneedstoys.com organizes their website around toys that challenge the senses, develop skills, and stimulate the imagination.

Whoopi Goldberg helps Toys R Us sell toys in their toy guide for "differently-abled" kids. The "shop-by-skill" menu widget provided on the site is helpful for selecting toys so you come out looking like the Holiday Season Knight in Shining Armor.

If all else fails, a dependable fall-back plan is a wagon just like the one you used to rope your friends into pulling you around in. Your little one will love cruising around the house, or weather permitting, your neighborhood, in this wagon while you do all the pulling.

Lekotec Resources provides these helpful tips for making your shopping a win.

1. Multi-sensory appeal
Does the toy respond with lights, sounds, or movement to engage the child? Are there contrasting colors? Does it have a scent? Is there texture?

2. Method of activation
Will the toy provide a challenge without frustration? What is the force required to activate? What are the number and complexity of steps required to activate?

3. Places the toy will be used
Will the toy be easy to store? Is there space in the home? Can the toy be used in a variety of positions such as side-lying or on a wheelchair tray?

4. Opportunities for success
Can play be open-ended with no definite right or wrong way? Is it adaptable to the child's individual style, ability, and pace?

5. Current popularity
Is it a toy that will help the child with disabilities feel like "any other kid?" Does it tie in with other activities like books and art sets that promote other forms of play?

6. Self-expression
Does the toy allow for creativity, uniqueness, and making choices? Will it give the child experience with a variety of media?

7. Adjustability
Does it have adjustable height, sound volume, speed, and level of difficulty?

8. Child's individual abilities
Does the toy provide activities that reflect both developmental and chronological ages? Does it reflect the child's interests and age?

9. Safety and Durability
Does the toy fit with the child's size and strength? Does it have moisture resistance? Is the toy and its parts sized appropriately? Can it be washed and cleaned?

10. Potential for interaction
Will the child be an active participant during use? Will the toy encourage social engagement with others?