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Story Stones
Play this fun and easy game to work on and improve language development, articulation, and listening skills. Find this activity and many others in our app!
Animal Walk Relay Race
This game is great for gross motor development! Find this game and so much more in our mobile app!
Mother's Day Flowerpot Activity
This activity is wonderful for material management, organizational skills, tracing, drawing, cutting, gluing and motor planning skills! This is a great way to discuss flowers, colors, and everything our amazing mothers do for us!
I Love You to Pieces Mother’s Day Craft
For Mother’s Day, kids can express themselves with this fun and creative craft to say “I love you to pieces!”
This activity uses components you may have at home along with our printable resources.
DIY Giant Plunk Game
Plunk! If you have ever played the classic game KerPlunk, you’ll enjoy this giant outdoor version using simple supplies.
Sensory Car Wash
Did you know you can build your kids their own sensory car wash? Using simple supplies that are readily available, kids can play and engage their senses in a really fun way! This DIY craft is perfect for a hot day.
Hand and Foot Hopscotch
Get active with this easy indoor hopscotch game! This activity focuses on the development of motor planning, differentiation between left and right, as well as visual processing.
Marble Painting
Use marbles and paint to create your own abstract art! This activity focuses on fine motor skills such as hand strength, bilateral coordination, in hand manipulation, visual tracking to watch marbles as they roll all over the paper, and determination of different sides of the body (left vs right).
Handprint Dish
Use clay to craft this useful and special gift! This activity aids in many areas of development including bilateral integration, hand and finger strengthening, sensory processing, fine motor skills, and visual motor skills.
Recognizing Early Signs of Speech and Language Delays in Children
May is designated as Better Hearing & Speech Month, a time to raise awareness about communication disorders and promote the importance of early intervention. Speech and language delays are among children's most common developmental disorders, affecting approximately 10-15% of kids. Early identification and intervention can significantly improve outcomes for children with speech and language delays.
Managing Stress and Anxiety: How to Support Your Child During Test Season
As a parent or caregiver, ensuring your child's success in school may be one of your top priorities.
Mental Health & Childhood Depression
“National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day shines a national spotlight on the importance of caring for every child’s mental health and reinforces that positive mental health is essential to a child’s healthy development.”
Stuttering Awareness
In May, we draw attention to those who experience stuttering to help raise awareness about what it is and how parents can find therapeutic interventions to help their children with fluency at an early age. Most importantly, during National Stuttering Awareness Week (the second week of May), we want to help spread the message that those who stutter are not alone and should not feel isolated.
JUSTin HOPE Foundation
JUSTin HOPE Foundation was created in 2011 in Reno, NV, by the parents of a special young man named Justin Reitz. When Justin was two years old, he was diagnosed with a neurodevelopmental disorder. As his parents navigated this overwhelming change and encountered countless questions in their journey to help their son, they realized that there was a lack of support and resources for families in similar circumstances.
Hearing Protection for School-Aged Children
Each year in May, we observe Better Hearing and Speech Month. The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) aims to increase awareness and understanding about disorders related to speech and hearing. Everyone is encouraged to be mindful of their speech and hearing ability, but for children, it is especially important not only to address problems, but to prevent injury.
Physical Fitness Month
Every year in May, we celebrate and aim to support National Physical Fitness and Sports month. This year, the focus of the celebration is #MoveInMay. The campaign aims to promote safety while engaging in physical activity and this year, that means social distancing. Following the latest information from your region’s public health providers and local leaders will help you learn how to engage in physical activity outdoors in the safest way possible.
Speech-Language Pathology
The discipline of speech pathology had been around for a long time - the American Academy of Speech Correction was established in 1926, but it did not become speech-language pathology for a couple of decades.
Adventure Puzzle Pack
Our set of Adventure Puzzles provides interactive and engaging for kids which can enhance their visual perception, hand-eye coordination, and cognitive skills. Choose from six scenes to take you on an adventure in space, the forest, the jungle, underwater, or at a construction site.
The ABCs of Coping
Kids can use this visual reference when they are in need of learning some coping skills that they can use when in moments of turmoil. Sometimes calming down can be difficult if they are experiencing sensory overload or in the midst of a meltdown.
Finger Fidget Activity
Hand/finger fidgets also strengthen hand muscles that will develop the muscles of the hand for fine motor activities.