Things We Use
Handpicked by the Good Beginnings team — websites, apps, and content we genuinely recommend to families and caregivers.
Baby Development
Pathways Website
Comprehensive information on baby development from professionals, built over the past 30 years.
Free
Pathways Development App (Apple)
The app version for Apple of the amazing website above-you can take it with you everywhere!
Free
Pathways Development App (Google)
The app version for Android of the amazing website above-you can take it with you everywhere!
Free
Occupational Therapy
Tools to Grow OT
Great worksheets, activities, and parent education handouts.
Paid & Free
Kelly Mahler’s Interoception Website
Kelly is one of the leaders in interoception research and application. She has multiple levels of information for parents, clinicians, and others.
Paid & Free
Mouse Time App (Apple)
A great visual timer for families that can assist with smooth transitions between activities.
Free
Mouse Time App (Google)
A great visual timer for families that can assist with smooth transitions between activtiies.
Free
Toileting Blogs by Dawn Sandalcidi
Dawn is the creator of the majority of pediatric pelvic health content for the past 40+ years.
She has free blogs to break down complicated topics into everyday understanding.
Our Program Director is faculty with Dawn and our programming is based on her work.
Free
Solid Starts
A wonderful website + app assisting with food introduction to babies and toddlers.
Paid & Free
Book: How to Outsmart Worry
A wonderful, age-tailored book to help children with managing anxiety.
Paid
Visual Countdown Timer
A visual timer with multiple avatars, including personalizing your own!
Paid & Free
Quick Cups Game
Develops color and shape recognition, hand-eye coordination and motor skills and can be matched with multiple aged players.
Note: Adults can start as young as 5 years old depending on the topic complexity.
Adults, Children
Paid
Physical Therapy
Parent Resources for Torticollis from APTA Pediatrics
Great information for parents directly from the research done by PT’s.
Free
The Soda Can Model of Respiration
This model by Mary Massery easily explains how breathing and function go hand in hand. A must for everyone that breathes!!
Free
More videos by Mary Massery
Mary has multiple videos to explain many complicated therapy principles with demonstrations and easy practice activities.
Free
Quick Cups Game
Develops color and shape recognition, hand-eye coordination and motor skills and can be matched with multiple aged players.
Paid
Toileting Blogs by Dawn Sandalcidi
Dawn is the creator of the majority of pediatric pelvic health content for the past 40+ years.
She has free blogs to break down complicated topics into everyday understanding. Our Program Director is faculty with Dawn and our programming is based on her work.
Free
Animal Related Therapy/Support
Equine Therapy in NOVA
Therapeutic Riding, Equine Assisted Psychotherapy and Equine Assisted Learning programs in the urban/suburban area of Northern Virginia.
Paid
Community Opportunities
Adapted programs for Fairfax County, VA
A listing of all the adapted program offerings via Fairfax County Parks & Recreation.
Paid & Free