Welcome to our Pediatric Therapy Gift Guide! This holiday season, upgrade from traditional gifts and discover presents that not only bring joy but also work occupational, speech, and physical therapy skills. Crafted by our expert clinicians, each item in our guide is designed to support therapy goals for children. Discover the perfect blend of entertainment and therapeutic benefits with our 2023 Holiday Gift Guide!
How We Picked:
Our clinicians meticulously assessed each toy to ensure alignment with specific therapy goals. By prioritizing items that make learning enjoyable, our guide seamlessly integrates play and therapy. Explore our handpicked guide, tailored to cater to diverse developmental needs, guaranteeing that each toy contributes to a child’s growth journey.
Occupational Therapy Skills
Poke-a-Dot!
These books are great for encouraging skills such as index finger isolation, fine motor strength, and visual motor integration along with language and play skill development!
Kinetic Sand
Kinetic sand is a great way to introduce sensory play and allow your child to engage in new and various textures. You can incorporate toys to promote imaginary play and also molds to address strengthening and direction following! It also comes in a variety of colors, which can make it more personable.
Magna Doodle
These books are great for encouraging skills such as index finger isolation, fine motor strength, and visual motor integration along with language and play skill development!
Rush Hour Traffic Jam
Visual Perceptual skills: form constancy, visual sequencing, directionality, spatial awareness
Executive functioning skills: problem-solving, sequencing, planning and prioritization
Honey Bee Tree
The Honey Bee Tree is a one of our favorites! It is a blast to play, teaches hand-eye coordination, strategic thinking, and dexterity. If they’re not thinking and acting carefully, they’ll let all the bees out of the hive!
Speech Therapy Skills
Rainbow Spin Tower
Helps increase joint attention, facilitate requesting (more), commenting (go/stop/spin), and labeling (colors/size).
Play Kitchen
Targets a variety of receptive and expressive language skills and play skills including: following multistep directions, identifying named items and demonstrating knowledge of action words; naming items, requesting foods, taking orders; pretending to wash, mix, eat, role play restaurant respectively
Smart Stages Piggy Bank
This item can be used for following simple directives (i.e., put in, push, take out, open), understanding of spatial concepts (in, out, on top, etc.), expanding to 2-word phrases expressively (i.e., put in, red out), requesting “more” or “help”, working on labeling colors and animals (the coins have pictures of animals on them), identifying negation (i.e. which one is not red), and engages a wide age range with the music
Animal Logic
Targets executive functioning skills such as problem-solving, sequencing
Flip and Serve Pancake Set
Elevate playtime with Flip and Serve Pancake Set, designed to boost receptive and expressive language skills. Kids can follow multistep directions, identify kitchen items, and practice action words while flipping pretend pancakes. Encouraging imaginative play, this toy enhances both language development and fine motor skills in a fun and interactive way.
Physical Therapy Skills
Colored Stepping Stones
Can work on balance, coordination, visual scanning, and color matching skills
Sturdy Birdy
This game challenges your child on a physical level while encouraging counting skills, self-esteem, and more! Expect increased balance, coordination, core strength, and a lift to the corners of the lips the moment you start playing Sturdy Birdy!
Pop-up Play Tunnel
Targets upper extremity and core strength, bilateral coordination, postural stability
I Got This!
Targets balance, strength, postural stability, coordination, and motor planning.
As a special treat, some of these fantastic toys are available in stock at We Rock the Spectrum – Milwaukee. Plus, for an extra dash of holiday cheer, use the code HOLIDAY15 to enjoy a 15% discount on all Rock Shop toys. Happy gifting and joyful playtime!