New activity types: Off-Screen Activities, Games, and Tools

Cognishine now includes three new activity types: Off-Screen Activities, Games, and Tools, giving clinicians more flexibility in how they support engagement, skill development, and real-world carryover. Off-Screen Activities are designed for guided practice in everyday environments, while Games introduce structured, goal-driven play into sessions. Tools provide open-ended features you can adapt for your needs.

Off-Screen Activities (guided, real-world practice)

These short, guided videos help extend therapy beyond the screen and into daily routines. They are ideal for coaching families and building consistency between sessions.
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Gross Motor Activities
Whole-body, movement-based practice to build coordination, balance, and motor planning, using play and routine-friendly activities that work at home or outside.

Fine Motor Activities
Hands-on practice using everyday objects to strengthen hand control, accuracy, and coordination, supporting functional skills at home and in daily routines.

Sensory Regulation Activities
Practical, everyday strategies that use movement, touch, and changes in pace or intensity to help a child practice calming, reach an appropriate level of alertness, and organize sensory input at home, outdoors, and throughout the day.
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Ninja Path - one of our sensory regulation activities

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Games (structured play with a clinical purpose)

Games bring a clear goal and built-in structure, while keeping sessions motivating. Pattern Play, the first game added to this category, asks clients to observe a visual or auditory sequence and reproduce it, with each correct round adding one more step to steadily build working memory, attention, sequencing, and executive functioning.
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Pattern Play shows a short sequence of colors or numbers (optional sounds), then the client taps the tiles in the same order. As the sequence grows longer, you can customize difficulty by adjusting tile count, presentation speed, mode, and retry settings.

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A video introduction to Pattern Play:

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Tools (build it your way)

Whiteboard, the first Tool in this category, is a flexible, interactive workspace for creating personalized therapeutic tasks. Use it to target a wide range of goals through typing, drawing, shapes, and emojis, from categorization, vocabulary, and following directions, to phonological awareness, memory, message organization, initiation, and turn-taking. It can also support cognitive skills such as memory and figure-ground discrimination, along with graphomotor skills including tracing, writing, and drag-and-drop tasks. The key benefit is full flexibility to adapt each session in real time.

A video introduction to the Whiteboard activity:

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Where to find these new activity types

Open Find in Cognishine and filter by Activity Type to explore Off-Screen Activities, Games, and Tools. Or search for the activity in the search bar.

Alternatively click these links to go straight to them in your Cognishine account: