Child life specialist toys

Southern ACLP on Instagram: "“What’s in my bag” child life edition! 🫧🧸📚 We asked NICU child life specialist, @olivia.priolo.pigeon, to share some must-haves in her child life distraction bag. Swipe to see Olivia’s fave toys to keep handy and how they benefit the patients she works with in the NICU! 📣 Comment below: what’s your go to item from your distraction bag?"

It's a well known fact that I suck at craft, so no doubt many of you will wake this morning to a craft tutorial from me and wondering if our recent house arrest was enough to let the kangaroos loose in my top paddock. Bear with me, I wrote a craft tutorial that no one follows. The girls have been spending their fair share of time at the doctor lately. On our last visit our clever GP made the Little Sister an elephant from a surgical glove. It's an ingenious way to amuse a small person for a…

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital reports success using a targeted educational approach to teach young sickle cell disease patients to remain motionless during MRI scans, making the process safer.

My tubie bear - NG Tube, Oxygen Tube, & G-Button It goes with me everywhere I go! It helps me accomplish a lot of hard and painful procedures.

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Increase fine motor skills and ease anxieties about a check-up, just by playing dress up or choosing this doctor costume for Halloween. This sturdy, plastic 19-piece play doctor set for kids features a battery-operated stethoscope, forceps, bandages, pager, cell phone and more. Everything fits into a plastic, clamp-tight case. Children love this as a costume for Halloween and beyond! Cell phone requires 2 AA batteries, not included. # Pieces In Set: 19 Number of Batteries: 2 Learning Skill…

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Medical play with Anger and minions. Role playing putting them on hemo dialysis

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T-Shirt Bracelet made out of hospital gowns. There are tons of t-shirt bracelet patterns online, but kids can braid, tie knots, fishtail braid or do more intricate patterns. Let kids cut and rip up old or damaged hospital gowns and use the strips to design keychains or bracelets.

🍼✨ Exciting News: “The Big Sibling Guide to the NICU” is published on Amazon! ✨🍼 I’m so excited to share my newest activity book with you all! As a Child Life Specialist, I’ve been working hard to create something special for big siblings during their family’s NICU journey. 🌟 Having worked in the NICU and hosted many sibling visits, I was inspired to create this book to help big brothers and sisters feel connected and understand what’s happening with their little sibling in the NICU. 🤗💕…