Newborn screening tests can change lives and save lives. Throughout September, we aim to promote the conversation about newborn screening awareness. Every year, millions of infants in this country receive a health screening that helps parents learn about any potentially life-altering conditions or chronic ailments they can plan to manage.

Childhood obesity is an issue that is growing more and more common in the United States. According to the CDC, approximately 1 in 5 children (which is around 19%) have obesity in our country.

Kids can get stressed out. Even before the days of online learning and worry about COVID-19, kids can struggle with balancing their commitments and expectations while they may not have the skills to cope with that stress.

Getting quality sleep is important for everyone, but particularly for children and infants, it is crucial. Without quality sleep, cognitive development may suffer in the areas of language, memory, and learning. Poor sleep can affect us all, but children with Down Syndrome are likely to experience a persistence in sleep difficulties.

Global Immune Thrombocytopenia Awareness week falls on September 20-24th each year. Organizations and supporters around the world aim to raise awareness of this disorder. On the last Friday of September, join in and “Sport Purple for Platelets Day.”

The first Monday in October is National Child Health Day. Parents and families work hard to keep their children healthy, and there are many ways to promote a better understanding of how to address children’s health.

Our Story Sequencing Cards is an engaging therapeutic activity designed to help with your child's cognitive skills, language development, and storytelling abilities. By arranging picture cards in the correct order, children learn to understand and create coherent simple narratives, a crucial skill for both communication and comprehension.

Kids can build this fun and engaging craft to help explain themselves and introduce themselves to their new classmates. In a group, kids can exchange their wheels and then talk about things they find out about each other.

Learning letters is an excellent preparatory activity for school to increase auditory processing, language development, and associations, as well as the visual motor integration to identify and appropriately trace letters.

Get the conversation started with prompts from these fun monsters! This activity provides children with helpful conversation starters to practice social skills or WH questions.

Get active while working on your spelling skills! This game is fun and really easy to get started playing. You can print out our alphabet exercise sheet or open it on a tablet for kids to look at.

Print out these fun phonics activities to learn letters and vocabulary words. Download the packet of school bus pictures for free fun at home!

Make this versatile game with simple supplies!

This game focuses on developing fine motor skills. Squeezing clothespins will help develop the pincer/tripod grasp needed for writing, hand-eye coordination, bilateral coordination, as well as visual motor skills to match shape/color/letter recognition.

Get free worksheets to print out and use at home with your kids! Create routines together to build skills over time.

This fun activity works your child’s gradation of force for building blocks, spatial reasoning to avoid knocking them down when tracing, fine motor and visual motor integration, as well as, visual perceptual skills to trace. Have them talk about the blocks, shapes, shadows, and sequence the steps for language development.

Facilitation of pincer grasp and release for block sorting helps to develop fine motor skills and motor planning to navigate placement into the appropriate place. Work in descriptions of the blocks and their characteristics for language development and visual-perceptual skills.

Providing children with the language to be able to be aware of and express their emotions is an essential first step before using coping strategies to self-regulate. Talk with your children over this fun craft activity to have a visual representation of all the feelings they can experience.

Make a quick and simple watermelon soap foam sensory play experience for your kids to enjoy!

Use painters tape to create a fun and interactive activity at home (inside the house!)

Get ready for back to school with this easy and fun activity kids can do at home. All you’ll need are a few simple simple supplies: construction paper, glue, scissors, and our printable tracing template.