Welcome to the Board Games collection by Ergotreatment — a play-based hub of therapy games, OT activities, and learning resources designed to support child development in a fun, low-pressure way. Here you’ll find board games that target attention and focus, executive functioning, emotional regulation, turn-taking, social skills, and flexible thinking, making them ideal for pediatric occupational therapy, home programs, and school-based OT.

Use these games as ready-made family activity ideas or small-group tools in the classroom and clinic to help children with autism, ADHD, or other special needs practice real-life skills — while they simply feel like they’re playing. Many of these games can also be integrated into teletherapy activities and OT home exercises, giving families practical ways to carry over therapy goals at home.

Board games hold significant therapeutic value in pediatric occupational therapy because they provide a structured yet highly motivating context for practicing a wide range of developmental skills within meaningful play. When carefully selected and graded, board games can target:

• attention and focus
  
• executive functioning (planning, working memory, cognitive flexibility, impulse control)
  
• emotional regulation and self-regulation
  
• frustration tolerance and behavior regulation
  
• social skills such as turn-taking, perspective-taking, and cooperative problem-solving
  

Many games also inherently support visual perception, visual motor skills, and fine motor skills (manipulating small pieces, managing cards, using a spinner), and can contribute to sensory regulation when embedded within the right environment and routine.

For children with autism, ADHD, learning differences, or other special needs, board games function as powerful therapy games because they disguise “work” as play, reducing performance anxiety while still allowing the therapist to observe and shape real-life behaviors like waiting, following multi-step directions, recovering from losing, and negotiating with peers. From an occupational therapy activities perspective, integrating board games into OT sessions and home programs offers families accessible family activity ideas that generalize clinic-based goals into everyday life, strengthen parent–child relationships, and promote participation in age-appropriate leisure — all essential components of holistic child development and occupational engagement.

Use this collection to build your own board game–based therapy toolkit at home, in the clinic, or in the classroom. Combine board games with other OT resources, learning resources, and printable resources (such as visual supports, score sheets, or simple OT worksheets) to give children with autism, ADHD, learning differences, or other special needs the practice in attention, executive functioning, social skills, and emotional regulation they need to participate more fully in everyday life and learning.