On October 6, we observe World Cerebral Palsy Day. Across the world, over 17 million individuals feel the impact of this disorder. Primarily affecting children, cerebral palsy can occur all throughout a child’s lifespan and there is currently no cure for this disorder.

During the month of October, kids who celebrate Halloween are usually anticipating the close of the month — particularly what their candy haul might look like come November 1. With the expected sugar on the horizon, we’re highlighting an important focus for the month of October: National Dental Hygiene Month.

October is Healthy Lung Month, when we focus on the ways we can keep our lungs and respiratory system in optimal health. Many of us do not address our lungs unless we experience a problem breathing. As with so many diseases and disorders, prevention is key.

This interactive game combines speech therapy concepts with a fun treasure hunt theme, with a digital PDF download component (available in our app) for easy play at home, in the classroom, or in speech therapy sessions. Players embark on a treasure hunt, solving speech-related challenges along the way.

The leaf texture activity focuses on bilateral coordination to stabilize leaf/paper while coloring, fine motor skills to peel crayons and pinch while holding crayon on side to color, color recognition, identification of different size leaves, and the textures for sensory.

Get some fun ideas to challenge kids to follow along and create something new! It’s easy to play and easy for kids to understand how it works.

It is important for children to understand the safety basics when it comes to playing sports. To make the conversation more fun and engaging, use our sports safety conversation cube to talk about what your child should always remember to help them stay safe.

Smash the thing! This activity is a great way to get kids active and let out some of the active energy they have naturally while practicing sh-words.

Explore the senses while incorporating fine motor, visual motor, visual perception, tactile defensiveness, daily living skills, play and sequencing skills.

Gross motor activity to plan movements and copy the adult/therapist. Balance/strength/stability as well as crossing midline and distinguishing different body parts and sides of the body.

Tactile (sensory) play to feel all the textures of the leaves/sticks. Visual motor to talk about colors, shapes, sizes. Use of glue adds a sensory component if they touch the stickiness.

Print out materials for this fun and simple game at home. This game helps children work on social skills as well as receptive and expressive communication skills such as following directions, position concepts, vocabulary, and describing.

Spell your name, follow the prompts, and get your exercise!

This exercise game helps children develop gross motor skills, strength, balance, endurance, as well as provides proprioceptive and vestibular input. The prompts can be modified easily to suit the abilities of the players.

Create an easy sensory game with no mess! Play this game to work on fine motor and visual perceptual skills, hand strengthening, bilateral coordination, scissor skill development, and prewriting skills.

Get creative with this simple at-home craft. This activity works on the development of fine motor and visual perceptual skills, hand strength, bilateral coordination, and hand-eye coordination.

Sports can be great for a child’s health but high risk for eye injury without proper eyewear. Eye injuries are one of the leading causes of blindness among children in the United States. To prevent any eye injuries for your child, make sure they have the correct eyewear for each sport.

World Cancer Day is February 4th. Most causes of childhood cancer (or pediatric cancer) are unknown. As little as 5% of cancer cases are attributed to genetically inherited reasons. All are typically due to some kind of increasing cell growth which results in the evidence of cancer.

Children, and really anyone, experiences disturbances in their ability to process when experiencing heightened emotion.

A common and treatable condition called Dysphagia, happens when a person has difficulty swallowing.