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Liftoff Family Resource Hub

Trusted developmental information, home activities and community resources, selected by the Liftoff team at Launch Therapy Center.

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Start here

After a Liftoff visit, use this hub to keep going at home. Pick your child's age group or a topic, read the short instructions, and try one or two things during routines you already have: meals, bath time, play on the floor, or the drive home.

You can browse everything without entering your child's name, birthday or any medical information. Nothing you read here is a record of your child.

Try this at home

A few approved activities families can start with. Browse as many as you like.

Featured activity

Give your baby face time

What this helps your child practice

Neck strength and head control.

Materials needed

None. Just your face and your voice.

Simple instructions

  1. 1Make eye contact with your baby.
  2. 2Get your baby to follow your eyes and turn their head to watch you.

Ways to include it in everyday routines

Not yet added by staff

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Featured activity

Sit and follow a toy

What this helps your child practice

Following a toy with the eyes, reaching for it and grasping it.

Materials needed

A ball or a toy.

Simple instructions

  1. 1Sit and support your baby upright on the floor.
  2. 2Move a ball or toy in front of them.
  3. 3Encourage your baby to follow the toy with their eyes, reach for it and grasp it.

Ways to include it in everyday routines

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Featured activity

Move to the beat

What this helps your child practice

Shaking, swaying and twirling to the beat.

Materials needed

Music. Simple props like ribbons or homemade shakers.

Simple instructions

  1. 1Listen to music that gets your toddler moving to the beat.
  2. 2Add simple props like ribbons or homemade shakers to encourage shaking, swaying or twirling.
  3. 3Sing simple songs and rhymes with actions for your toddler to copy.

Ways to include it in everyday routines

Not yet added by staff

Open simple songs and rhymes with actions
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Featured activity

Squish and roll playdough

What this helps your child practice

Hand and finger muscles for writing, buttoning and cutting.

Materials needed

Playdough in different colors.

Simple instructions

  1. 1Let your child play with playdough by squishing it, pressing it, pinching it, and making balls in different colors.

Ways to include it in everyday routines

Not yet added by staff

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Activity collections

Small sets of activities you can open in one link. A therapist can point you to one without any of your child's information being in the link.

Early Communication Activities

A short set of things to try at home to encourage looking, listening, taking turns and first words.

4 activities · 4 handouts

Movement and Hand Skills

A short set of things to try at home to practice reaching, moving, and using small finger muscles.

4 activities · 3 handouts