Good board games require quick turns and lots of thinking. "Gobblet Gobblers" is a perfect beginning game of strategy utilizing visual-spacial...
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Playing Board Games Helps Children with Autism
Playing fun, engaging board games with kids helps build social skills. For higher functioning children on the autism spectrum, games provide many...
Products for Children with Special Needs
Parents of children who I work with are always looking for fun and effective products to use with their kids to promote their skills. One of the...
Articulation Speech Therapy Games
I find the easiest way to motivate kids working on sounds is to have a cache of fun, motivating games to play with them. Have them say several...
Children’s Authors’ Blogs Encourage Creativity
I love to expose kids to great authors and the stories behind them. Many authors have terrific blogs and websites with activities related to their...
Educational Toys–The Best of New York Toy Fair, 2009
I wanted to share some observations I made as I viewed my favorite booths, specializing in educational toys, books and games for the birth-8 year...
New Educational Toys, Books and Games at the Toy Fair
Wow! Talk about a kid in a candy store--try spending the day at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, being captivated by all the new toys...
Games for Speech Therapy and Home Fun
I love to hear from parents and Speech Therapists with ideas to stimulate speech and language. Keep the e-mails and comments coming! Today I heard...
Great Gift Guide for Kids’ Toys, Games and Books
Parents often ask me for advice on best toys and games for gift giving this time of year. A wonderful source for top educational materials for kids...
Speech Therapy Game for the “R” Sound
I always play with toys or games when I work with children so they forget that they are doing "work!" It occurred to me the other day that...
Great Educational Games for Kids
Parents often ask me for good game ideas for their kids. Today a mom wrote down every game I played with her son directly to her Christmas list!...
Carefully Evaluate the Technology in Toys for Babies and Toddlers
Recently I have been challenged to think about the role technology plays in children's toys, specifically for the baby and toddler set. I raised...
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