HAPPY HOLIDAYS! The Holidays are here so PediaSpeech has put together some items you can add to your children’s Holiday Gift List!
Gift ideas from our Speech Therapists:
Ages 15 months – 3 years
To work on: Cause and effect, Appropriate play skills, Following directions (e.g., in and out), Identifying/naming common pictures, Pretend play
- Fisher Price —
- Little People Lil’ Movers School Bus ABC Truck
- Piggy Bank
- Peek-a-Blocks Tumblin’ Sounds Giraffe
- Go Baby Go Poppity Pop Musical Dino
- Mr. Potato Head
- Play cut-up food (e.g. Melissa & Doug Cutting Food)
- Pretend & Play Doctor Set – Learning Resources
Ages 3 to 5
- Cranium Cariboo – Cranium
Ages 4 and up
To work on: Naming, Word -finding, Vocabulary, Category, Similarities and Differences
- Hedbanz – Spin Master Games
- Snack Attack – Think Fun
- Zingo – Think Fun
- Secret Square – University Games
- Guess Who – Hasbro
- Guess Where – Hasbro
- Play & Discover What Goes Together – The Learning Journey
To work on following directions
- Hullaballoo – Cranium
- Operation – MB Games
- Following Directions – Hear Builder
Ages 5 and up
To work on: Reading and Spelling
- What’s GNU? – Think Fun
- Scattegories, Jr. – Milton Bradley
- Outburst, Jr.- Parker Brothers
- Taboo, Jr.- Hasbro
Gift ideas from our Occupational Therapist:
- Take the Cake – Gamewright
- Blink – Mattel (card game)
- Monkey Magnet – http://www.amazon.com/Pamela-Drake-Monkey-Magnet-Robots/dp/B000PELSR0/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1354902901&sr=1-1&keywords=monkey+magnets
- Builder-Monster – http://www.amazon.com/Mindz-Bizarre-Builder-Monster-Parts/dp/B001V8TFEC/ref=sr_1_2?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1354902940&sr=1-2&keywords=robot+bits
- ChickyBoom – http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Orange-350-Chickyboom/dp/B002BFDMW0/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1354903085&sr=1-1&keywords=chicka+boom+game
- Waboba- http://waboba.com//
Posted by Carly Davis