A Holiday Gift Guide for 2025 - Help Your Child Reach Their Communicative & Developmental Goals
- Rachel Moon
- Dec 2
- 2 min read
Level 1 Gifts
These gifts are helpful if your child is beginning to demonstrate:
Cause and effect concept development
Early fine motor skills
Functional play skills and imitated functional play skills
Ability to follow simple 1 step directions with visual and verbal models
Level 2 Gifts
These gifts are helpful if your child is beginning to demonstrate:
Pretend play skills
Ability to independently follow 1 step directions
Ability to follow simple 2-3 step directions with visual and verbal models
Use of longer utterances for a wider variety of pragmatic functions (commenting, requesting, terminating, questioning, etc)
Ability to answer simple "what/where/when" questions
Level 3 Gifts
These gifts are helpful if your child is beginning to demonstrate:
Ability to follow more complex 2-3 step directions
Increased attention span
Ability to answer a variety of abstract "what/where/when" questions
Turn taking and development of cooperative play skills
Level 4 Gifts
These gifts are helpful if your child is beginning to demonstrate:
Development of appropriate sentence structure through questioning
Social skills
Inferencing and problem solving skills
Sensory-Friendly Gifts & Toys
Visual:
Tactile:
Gross Motor Skills:
Early Literacy Skills
Gifts for Emerging Readers:
We hope this holiday gift guide helps you find meaningful, development-supporting toys and tools for the children in your life. Every item was selected by our team at Remedy Speech Therapy with the goal of encouraging communication, sensory exploration, fine-motor growth, and joyful connection at home. The right play materials can make such a difference—and we’re grateful to be part of your child’s journey this season and beyond.
Disclaimer: Remedy Speech Therapy is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. This means that when you click on our Amazon links and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. All products recommended in this guide were chosen based on their developmental value and our clinical expertise; our participation in the Amazon Associates Program does not influence which items we include.
Thank you for supporting our clinic and the work we do for families in our community. Wishing you a warm, joyful, and development-rich holiday season!
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