Holiday Gift Guide 2022

Check out our top 45 gift ideas with

speech, occupational therapy, and feeding targets!

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Gift-giving is uniquely personal. It’s a way of sharing something with family and friends that helps them be the best version of themselves with a thoughtful and engaging gift.

Arise Therapies has selected our top 45 gifts for this 2022 season! Listed below are terrific gift ideas to help your child succeed in 2023 by strengthening skill sets while having fun!

 
 

Gift ideas are divided into speech, occupational, and feeding therapy categories with specific targets for each, as well as a category at the end for “books with a purpose”. Let’s get started!

1. Speech Gifts Under $100

Name: Toniebox

Age Range: 3+

Speech Targets: “Fill in the blank” with familiar songs; engage in song play with sustained attention; label character names, and describe the size, shape, and color of the character. 

2. Speech Gifts Under $75

Name: The Butterfly Pig Inclusive Doll and Accessories

Age Range: Any age (however, the doll is high quality and made of vinyl so be aware of that!)

Description: The doll itself (that comes in all different nationalities and even includes dolls with Down Syndrome features!) ranges anywhere from $35-$50, but accessories (including hearing aids, baha hearing device, cochlear implants, AAC devices, G-tubes, inhalers, tracheostomy tubes and more!) range from $5-$20.

Speech Targets: Engage in pretend play, label body parts, help your child better understand disorder/device he or she uses, and feel more included in their world. 

3. Speech Gifts Under $50

Name: Magna-tiles

 

Age Range: 3+

Speech Targets: Imitating actions such as sorting or stacking, labeling colors and shapes, and target action words/prepositions (i.e. up, down, fall, go, stop, in, out).

Name: Take-Along Tabletop Railroad

Age Range: 3+

Speech Targets: Spatial concepts (over, under, through), descriptive words (fast, slow, long, short, first, last), action words (stop, go), opportunities to request “more” train cars to make a longer train.

Name: Paw Patrol Wooden ABC Truck

Age Range: 3-5 years

Speech Targets: Spatial concepts (put on, put in, etc.); learning early phonological skills with letters on blocks, engage in pretend play; making environmental sounds (beep, honk), action (go, stop) and descriptive words (fast, slow). 

Name: The Fidget Game

Age Range: PreK to 3rd Grade

Speech Targets: Early literacy skills (learning sight words), turn-taking.

Name: Spelligator 

Age Range: 5+

Speech Targets: Practice sounding out words, participate in word building, review spelling rules, includes various levels of difficulty, CVC activity cards for sound and letter recognition in three letter words. 

Name: Domino Train

Age Range: 3-12

Speech Targets: Identify and label colors, counting, actions and adjectives (go, stop, fast, slow, push), spatial concepts (over, under). 

Name: Fisher-Price Little People Play House

Age Range: 1-5 years

Speech Targets: Repetition of play routines (night night… wake up!), exclamatory words for early talkers (whee!, uhoh, yum!), household vocabulary, prepositions (in, on, under), following directions, and so much more!

Name: Tapple Game

Age Range: Ages 8+

Speech Targets: Categorical word finding, rapid word retrieval, strengthen semantic/phonological networks post stroke, family fun.

4. Speech Gifts Under $25

Name: Dot Markers

Age Range: 3+

Speech Targets: Label colors, develop hand/eye coordination, target action words/nouns (i.e. go, dot, push, circle).

Name: Wooden Burger Stacking Toy

Age Range: 3+ 

Speech Targets: Following directions and learning prepositions (i.e. first put burger on, then put lettuce on).

Name: Learning Resources Peekaboo Learning Farm

Age Range: 2+

Speech Targets: Labeling animals, continue & sorting, prepositions (i.e., in/out, on/off), color recognition, imaginative play, fine motor skills, great stocking stuffer! 

Name: Learning Resources Counting Surprise Party

Age Range: 3+

Speech Targets: Labeling items, counting & sorting skills, target prepositions (i.e., in, out, on, behind), color recognition, great stocking stuffer! 

Name: Color Matching Mosaic Peg Board

Age Range: 2+

Speech Targets: Counting, color recognition, target action words/prepositions (i.e., in, out, push, take out/in), turn-taking, hand-eye coordination, find motor skills.

5. OT Gifts Under $100

Name: Harkla Hug Sensory Chair 

Age Range: 3+

OT Targets: Proprioceptive/body awareness input, self-regulation.

Name: Sand Table

Age Range: 24 months+

OT Targets: Sensory play, fine motor coordination, bilateral coordination, strengthening.

Name: Spinner-X Sit and Spin Toy Bigger SizeToy Bigger Size

Age Range: 3 years +

OT Targets: Vestibular input.

6. OT Gifts Under $75

Name:  Turtle Steps Balance Stepping Stones

Age Range: Toddler+

OT Targets: Balance, gross motor coordination, motor planning, sequencing.

Name: Kid’s Art Easel

Age Range: Toddler+

OT Targets: Strengthening, fine motor skills, visual motor skill.

7. OT Gifts Under $50

Name: Squigz

Age Range: 3+

OT Targets: Bilateral coordination, strengthening, fine motor skills, visual motor skills.

Name: Weighted Stuffed Animal (5 pounds)

Age Range: 3+

OT Targets: Calming deep pressure input.

Name: Melissa and Doug Let’s Play House! Dust! Sweep! Mop!

Age Range: 3+

OT Targets: Motor planning, bilateral coordination, midline crossing, pretend play.

Name: Little Tikes Indoor/Outdoor Wet or Dry Slide

Age Range: 18 months-5 years

OT Targets: Sensorimotor play, strengthening, motor planning.  Love that this slide can be used  indoors or outdoors and has a water feature for outdoor play!

8. OT Gifts Under $25

Name: Wooden Geoboard Pegs

Age Range: 3+

OT Targets: Bilateral coordination, fine and visual motor skills, visual perceptual skills.

Name: Pop/Noise Tubes

Age Range: 3+

OT Targets: Bilateral coordination, hand strengthening, pincer grasp to place items inside tube and sensory input via auditory, tactile and proprioceptive inputs.

Name: Tangram Puzzles

Age Range: 3+

OT Targets: Visual spatial and visual perceptual skills, fine motor coordination.

Name: Zoom Ball

Age Range: 3+

OT Targets: Upper body strength, bilateral coordination, motor planning.

Name: Melissa and Doug Lacing Beads

Age Range: 3+

OT Targets: Bilateral coordination, fine motor coordination, and visual motor skills.

Name: Theraputty

Age Range: 3+

OT Targets: Hand strengthening, fine motor coordination, tactile discrimination.

Name: Melissa and Doug Scissors Skills Activity Book with Child Safe Scissors

Age Range: 4+

OT Targets: Cutting skills, bilateral coordination, visual motor integration, fine motor control.

Name: Ez Sox

Age Range: Toddler+

OT Targets: Increasing independence with dressing skills.

Name: Melissa and Doug First Shapes Jumbo Knob Wooden Puzzle

Age Range: 1-2 years

OT Targets: Great beginning puzzle, matching/visual discrimination, fine motor coordination.

Name: Tunnel

Age Range: crawling+

OT Targets: Strengthening, sensory input (tactile and proprioceptive), motor planning, creative play.

Name: Fisher Price Piggy Bank

Age Range: 6 months to 3 years

OT Targets: Fine motor skills, visual motor skills, cause and effect.

9. Feeding Gifts Under $50

Name: ARK's Y-Chew XT Oral Motor Chewy Tool
Age Range:
12 months+

Targets: Practice biting/chewing exercises, tool to decrease oral defensiveness and food aversions, strengthen lips, tongue, cheeks, and jaw. 

10. Feeding Gifts Under $25

Name: Meals with Milton

Age Range: Any Age 

OT Targets: Picky eating, utensil practice, model eating new foods. 

Name: Honey Bear Cup

Age Range: 6 months+

Targets: Practice straw drinking, oral motor skills (e.g., lip rounding, tongue retraction), transition from bottles and sippy cups. 

11. Books with a Purpose

Name: The Butterfly Pig by Mary Jenner

Age Range: Any age

Targets: Helps to understand and teach diversity, inclusion and friendship.

Name: Pete the Cat’s 12 Groovy Days of Christmas by James and Kimberly Dean

Age Range: 2-6 years old 

Targets: All Pete the Cat books have great repetition to help teach early language and children can fill in the blank as you read; they also teach rhyming, verb + ing (i.e. rocking, grooving, rolling), counting (i.e. 12 days of Christmas), descriptive language (i.e. hot/cold, small/big) and plurals (i.e. girls, boys). 

Name: Pete the Cat Save Christmas by James and Kimberly Dean

Age Range: 2-6 years old 

Targets: All Pete the Cat books have great repetition to help teach early language and children can fill in the blank as you read; they also teach rhyming, verb + ing (i.e. rocking, grooving, rolling), counting (i.e. 12 days of Christmas), descriptive language (i.e. hot/cold, small/big) and plurals (i.e. girls, boys). 

Name: Little Blue Truck’s Christmas by Alice Schertle

Age Range: 1-3 years old

Targets: Teaches children to imitate environmental sounds (i.e. beep, honk), verbs (i.e stop/go, ride), counting, and labeling colors, transportation vehicles and animals. 

Name: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Age Range: 1-5 years old

Targets: Sequencing, inferencing, adjectives, s-blend sounds (i.e. snow, snowsuit, slowly). 

Name: Moo, Baa, Fa La La La La! By Sandra Boyton

Age Range: 0-5 years

Targets: Repetition to learn early language; animal sounds, labeling animals. 

Name: The Mitten by Jan Brett

Age Range: 1-5 years

Targets: Inferencing (i.e. where is the mitten?), labeling animals, describing pictures, sequencing.

Wishing You a Very Merry Christmas!

With love and appreciation,

Arise Therapies


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