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National Health Centers Week

Community Health Centers were established in 1965. Since then, over 29 million people now have access to affordable health care in over 1,400 establishments that work toward reducing health care disparities.

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Breastfeeding Awareness and Developmental Benefits

Breastfeeding is a shared human experience all over the world as a natural aspect of caring for babies. World breastfeeding week falls in August, and during that week, people around the world join together to promote one of WABA’s objectives: to “focus on the impact of infant feeding on the environment/climate change and the imperative to protect, promote and support breastfeeding for the health of the planet and its people,” along with other ways to enable breastfeeding and empower parents.

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Creating Routines

For many of us, this season of our lives has felt much like being on a rollercoaster. We don’t know what is coming next or if we are turning left, right or upside down. It may even feel like we have come to a screeching halt when the ride is over.

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Pediatric Psoriasis Awareness

Psoriasis is a common condition which affects many people, as much as two to three percent of the world’s population. Individuals with psoriasis often begin to develop symptoms when they are a child or adolescent. Approximately ten percent of individual with psoriasis develop symptoms before they are 10 years old.

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Storytelling Scenes

Fill in the story scenes to create your own worlds right from your imagination! Choose from 10 different scenes to write a story and illustrate it above. You can print the pages out to use coloring pencils, crayons, or markers, or just open on a tablet to draw and write digitally.

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Icy Science Experiment

This is a great activity for critical thinking and sensory exploration! Cold is a great way to meet sensory thresholds efficiently to keep children regulated and escape from the heat of the Vegas summer! Also, getting your child to tell you what they think will happen, then, compare it to what actually happens is great for language development.

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Personality Tree Craft

How does your child describe themselves? A fun way to explore kids’ personality traits is with this simple personality tree craft. Just follow the instructions to create your own.

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Finish the Picture Activity

Put your creativity to the test with this fun and simple activity.

Start by printing out our templates for the start of your drawings. Have children choose which design they want to start with and the creativity can begin! Kids can use crayons, markers, colored pencils, or anything they choose to build a drawing around the marks already on the page.

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Legos for Speech Therapy

Does your family have an abundance of Legos or a similar style of building block in your kids' playroom? Put those block to good use! These building blocks don’t just serve as a motivation...but also as a way to help learn and communicate, address articulation, language and more! Check it out:

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Exercise Board Game

Get up and move with this free exercise board game for kids! This printable game board includes several body movements that will work on improving coordination, core strength, balance, and endurance. Whether it’s a rainy day inside, outside on the playground, or within a therapy session, kids will love having fun with this movement activity!

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Multi-Tasking Game

Enjoy trying this great multi-tasking activity to help with learning, balance and also helps kids with throwing and eye-hand coordination. It's a great idea for indoors activities! Check it out:

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4th of July Snack

Make a quick and delicious patriotic treat!

This activity focuses on auditory processing, gross motor skills, coordination, balance, motor planning, bilateral integration, visual perceptual skills, as well as developing hand and finger strength. Experience sensory integration via different tastes and textures.

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Fireworks Painting

This activity focuses on the development of fine motor skills, hand eye coordination, color identification, sensory integration through touching the paint, and expressive and receptive language skills through asking the child about their art.

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Underwater Sensory Scene

Perfect to enjoy the summer, this activity also works on vital visual-perceptual skills to scan the underwater environment, find objects hiding behind one another, and language development for learning directional concepts such as the “fish is hiding behind the seaweed and above the rocks!”

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Beach Ball Game

Work on gross motor skills with this easy and fun game! This activity focuses on developing hand eye coordination, balance, gross motor skills. The game can be graded to be more or less challenging depending on ability.

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