Therapist Recommended Products

This classic stacking game challenges children to carefully remove and balance wooden blocks without toppling the tower. It encourages fine motor precision, hand-eye coordination, planning, and patience while providing opportunities to practice turn-taking and managing frustration.

Parent Tip:  Add a question or movement to each turn, such as naming a coping strategy or completing five wall push-ups. For an added challenge, have them predict which block will be easiest to remove before taking their turn.

 This creative activity challenges children to recreate colorful pixel designs using small pieces or a patterned grid. It encourages visual discrimination, spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, and problem-solving while allowing children to explore their creativity.

Parent Tip: Start with simple patterns and encourage your child to work one row at a time. For an additional challenge, let them study a pattern briefly before trying to recreate it from memory. 

 This reusable sensory writing pad provides a hands-on way for children to explore letters, shapes, and early writing skills. Tracing activities encourage finger movements, visual-motor coordination, and familiarity with letter formation through tactile play.

Parent Tip: Begin with simple lines and shapes before introducing letters. Encourage your child to trace using their index finger while saying the letter's name or sound aloud.

This classic game challenges children to carefully remove silly objects using tweezers without touching the edges of the openings. It encourages fine motor control, visual attention, hand-eye coordination, and patience as children work to complete each challenge.

Parent Tip: Encourage your child to move slowly and steady their hand before picking up each piece. Practice with the game turned off first to build confidence before adding the buzzer. Make it harder by using the non-dominant hand or adding a time limit.

 This fast-paced game challenges children to locate and capture colorful bugs using small tongs as the bugs move around the bed. It encourages visual attention, hand-eye coordination, fine motor precision, and quick responses while practicing turn-taking and friendly competition.

Parent Tip: Start with the game turned off so your child can practice grasping the bugs with the tongs before adding movement. Focus on accuracy before speed.

This classic guessing game encourages children to ask questions, listen carefully, and use clues to identify a mystery character. It provides opportunities to practice descriptive language, logical reasoning, turn-taking, and eliminating possibilities.

Parent Tip: Encourage your child to ask questions that eliminate several characters at once, such as "Does your person wear glasses?" Talk through how each answer helps narrow down the choices.

These engaging conversation cards encourage children to share ideas, answer questions, and participate in meaningful discussions. They offer opportunities to practice expressive language, listening, perspective-taking, and back-and-forth conversations with family members or peers.

Parent Tip: Choose a few cards during dinner or family game night. Encourage everyone to answer, then practice asking follow-up questions such as "Why do you think that?" or "Can you tell me more?"

This interactive movement toy combines jumping, tossing, and rocket-launching activities to encourage active play. The different challenges provide opportunities to practice balance, timing, coordination, and motor planning while keeping children engaged through movement and music.

Parent Tip: Create a mini movement challenge by having your child complete one activity at a time. Encourage alternating feet, aiming at targets, or following a simple sequence of movements. 

 This versatile wooden balance board encourages children to explore movement, weight shifting, and postural control through active play. Its curved design can provide opportunities to practice balance, coordination, and body awareness while also supporting imaginative activities.

Parent Tip: Begin with your child standing on the board while holding your hands for support. Encourage gentle side-to-side weight shifting before trying more challenging movements. 

 This puzzle book encourages children to use observation, reasoning, and problem-solving skills to complete different challenges. It offers opportunities to practice visual discrimination, planning, flexible thinking, and persistence while working through increasingly difficult activities.

Parent Tip: Encourage your child to describe their plan before beginning a puzzle. If they become frustrated, offer a small clue or suggest trying a different strategy rather than immediately providing the answer.

This fast-paced matching game challenges players to find the one matching symbol between two cards. It encourages visual scanning, attention, quick recognition, and flexible thinking while providing opportunities to practice turn-taking and friendly competition.

Parent Tip: Begin without a timer so your child can focus on accurately identifying matching symbols. Gradually increase the pace as they become more confident, or take turns describing the matching pictures to practice language skills.

This stretchy sensory body sock provides gentle resistance as children push, stretch, and move inside the fabric. It encourages body awareness, coordination, and exploration of pressure and movement sensations.

Parent Tip: Encourage your child to stretch their arms and legs into different shapes or pretend to be an animal moving through the jungle. Always supervise, ensure they can exit easily, and keep breathing unrestricted.

This inflatable, canoe-shaped sensory chair provides a snug, enclosed seating experience for children who enjoy gentle pressure around their bodies. It offers opportunities to explore body awareness and different sensory sensations while sitting, reading, or participating in quiet activities.

Parent Tip: Allow your child to explore the chair at their own pace and choose a favorite book or quiet activity while seated. Always supervise, follow the manufacturer's sizing guidelines, and ensure your child can enter and exit independently. Consult your child's occupational therapist to determine whether this seating option is appropriate.

This rotating seat allows children to explore spinning and balance in a playful way. Its design encourages body awareness, postural control, and movement exploration.

Parent Tip: Rotational movement can be intense for some children. Ask your child's OT whether this product is appropriate and how to introduce it safely. Avoid fast or prolonged spinning, and stop if your child becomes uncomfortable or dizzy.

This squeezable sensory cube provides a distinctive, firm yet squishy tactile experience. Its unique texture and resistance make it an engaging handheld toy for children who enjoy squeezing and manipulating objects.

Parent Tip: Offer the cube during a quiet break or while listening to a story. Observe whether your child enjoys the sensation without assuming that every fidget will improve attention. 

 These colorful silicone suction toys stick together and to smooth surfaces, encouraging creative building and tactile exploration. Pulling them apart creates a popping sensation while challenging hand coordination and bilateral skills.

Parent Tip: Stick several Squigz to a smooth tabletop and challenge your child to pull them off one at a time. Encourage the use of both hands and supervise younger children

These small handheld stones feature different textures that children can explore by rubbing, pressing, or tracing with their fingers. They provide a portable tactile activity that some children may enjoy during transitions, waiting periods, or quiet moments.

Parent Tip: Encourage your child to slowly trace the texture with their thumb or finger and describe how it feels. Offer different textures and let your child choose their favorite. Select a size appropriate for your child's age and avoid small stones for children who mouth objects.

 These animal-themed sensory mats feature a variety of textures that encourage children to explore different tactile sensations through hands-on play. They offer opportunities to compare textures, develop sensory awareness, and practice describing how different surfaces feel.

Parent Tip: Create a sensory exploration game by asking your child to find something soft, bumpy, rough, or smooth. For children who are hesitant to touch unfamiliar textures, begin with a preferred texture or let them explore using a toy before trying their hands or feet.

 These uniquely shaped fidget toys offer an engaging combination of movement, texture, and visual interest. Their interactive design encourages children to manipulate, twist, or explore the toy while practicing finger movements and hand coordination.

Parent Tip: Allow your child to experiment with the toy and discover how its shape or movement changes. Try using it during short waiting periods or quiet breaks, and observe whether it is enjoyable or distracting for your child.

The Z-Vibe provides gentle vibration to help children explore different sensations in and around their mouths. Often used in feeding and oral sensory therapy, this versatile tool features interchangeable tips for different therapeutic activities.  

Parent Tip: Consult your child's feeding therapist before introducing the Z-Vibe. A therapist can demonstrate appropriate techniques, help select the correct attachment, and determine whether vibration is suitable for your child's needs. Always supervise use. The Z-Vibe is a therapeutic tool, not a chew toy.

Sensory chew necklaces provide children with an alternative to chewing on clothing, pencils, or other non-food objects. Available in different shapes, textures, and firmness levels, they offer oral sensory input that may help some children with self-regulation and sensory needs.  

Safety Note: Oral sensory and feeding tools should be used with appropriate adult supervision and guidance from your child's therapist. Always follow manufacturer age recommendations and safety instructions. 

 These colorful, double-ended silicone spoons feature different textures that provide gentle sensory input to the lips, tongue, and mouth during feeding. Designed to encourage oral exploration and help children become more comfortable with different sensations.

Parent Tip: Try offering a small amount of a familiar puree on the spoon to introduce the textured surface during mealtime. Always supervise use and consult your child's therapist for individualized recommendations. These spoons are not intended as chew toys. 

 These stainless steel plates feature a suction base designed to help keep the plate in place during meals. By reducing sliding and spills, they allow children to focus on practicing scooping, utensil use, and independent feeding skills. 

Parent Tip: Place the plate on a clean, smooth surface and encourage your child to practice scooping familiar foods with a child-sized spoon. Start with thicker foods, such as yogurt or mashed potatoes, which may be easier to scoop. Allow plenty of time for exploration and independent practice.