Our lead Occupational Therapist, Heidi Terry, arranged for team members of both speech and occupational therapy to contribute gift ideas that will benefit children who may have speech or occupational therapy-related concerns.
These gift ideas will help target and improve those areas, while being super fun and engaging for the family!
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These gift ideas will help target and improve those areas, while being super fun and engaging for the family!
Click on the product image or title to navigate to the sale on Amazon.
Note: By purchasing through the provided links, a portion of sales will be contributed to Arise Therapies.
Gift Ideas:
| Sensory Compression Sheet: This sheet is specially designed to provide calming input to support restful sleep.  |  |
| Melissa and Doug: These toys are without sound or music, which promotes increased child-parent interaction and provides more opportunities for language.  |   |
| Tong/Tweezer Games: Avalanche Fruit Stand (pictured below) Sneaky, Snacky Squirrel Game Learning Resources Sorting Pie These games are a fun way to strengthen hands for developing fine motor skills, scissors skills, and pencil grasp.  | Melissa and Doug Reusable Sticker Pads: This is a great activity for vocabulary building, requesting, choice-making, learning basic concepts, and following directions.  |
| Indoor Scooterboard: This can be used in a seated position or on the tummy to help strengthen arms, and to support fine motor coordination, development, and strength.  | HedBanz Game: This game targets language goals, including vocabulary, categories, and asking questions, such as, "Am I a ___?"  |
| Pop-up Pirate Game: This game helps with fine motor skills, turn-taking, colors, and target sounds, such as /p/ for "pop", "push", and prepositions (i.e. in and out)  | Mr./Mrs. Potato Head: These can be used to learn body parts, work on requesting, turn-taking, pretend play, and fine motor skills.  |
| Squigz: These are great for hand strengthening, grasp patterns, and using both hands together. To target upper body and add more of a challenge, use the Squigz on a vertical surface (window or wall).  | Pop It!: This is a great toy for finger isolation and hand strengthening, and this is also a great fidget toy for kids who need to keep their hands busy!  |
| Yeti in My Spaghetti: This game is great for fine motor control/coordination, as well as impulse control and turn-taking.  | Blink: This is a fast-moving card game for ages 7 years or older. It helps develop coordination, problem solving, and visual perception.  |
| Rush Hour: This game facilitates problem solving, sequencing, and visual perceptual skills, to set up and solve traffic jam puzzles.  | Little Tikes First Slide: A slide is great way to provide sensory input indoors during winter months.  |
| Melissa and Doug Jumbo Cardboard Boxes: These boxes provide opportunities for imaginative play, social opportunities if building with others, problem-solving, and spatial awareness.  | Zoob Builderz: These help develop visual-spatial planning through designing and building cool creations. This is also a fun way to work on fine motor strengthening within play.  |
| Sturdy Birdy Game: This game addresses balance and body awareness, and is designed for ages 5 and up.  |
Do you have other gift ideas? Let us know in the comments!
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays!
