The NIH funds thousands of projects every year to support turning discovery into long-term health solutions. This is a quick look at a Dr. Valri’s recent award in pediatric pain from HEAL, as well as our own research funded by the NIH.

A brief look at the most common areas of the hospital that child life specialists say could use distraction tools based on a recent survey.

March is Child Life Month and we love to celebrate all the ways that child life specialists contribute to pediatric care and well-being. We are doing a giveaway of child life tools to show our gratitude!

Partnerships in healthcare, when done right, can benefit patients most. Here are three ways that our recent partnership with eVideon will benefit patients. (Image by PCH.vector on Freepik)

A valentines day program is a great way to make pediatric patients feel seen and special, and we’ve created a free, printable valentine that has a 3D surprise: an augmented reality activity that can be triggered using a smartphone and a free app. You can deploy this cool valentine in 5 easy steps!

A Valentine’s Program is a great way to engage patients in a positive experience and to give a sense of normalcy while in hospital.

Mobile augmented reality is a powerful tool for engaging patients. Whether you are using it for patient education, distraction therapy, or mobility, AR creates a positive patient experience.

We all know that mobility is critical in recovery. But the real challenge is motivating that mobility, especially for children in pain or discomfort. Getting them to move takes a lot of nurse or PT time, and sometimes that time is just not available. So how can children self-motivate?

In healthcare, waiting can’t alway be avoided. So why does it matter so much when a patient has to wait? Waiting experience impacts satisfaction, loyalty, and the quality of interaction that a provider has with a patient.

In recent years, children’s play corners have become a very common way to offer distraction. But is it always the best option for your healthcare setting? Let’s explore some pros and cons of the designated kids’ corner for your waiting room.

Long wait times are often associated with low patient satisfaction. Here are a few simple research-backed tricks that can be used to engage pediatric patients and alleviate the pain of waiting areas!

In this day and age, digital-native pediatric patients necessitate digital solutions for engagement. In this series, we’ll take a look at some of the unique ways in which technology is being utilized to engage pediatric patients and their families, with a focus on the hospital spaces themselves.

Health related quality of life (HRQOL) impacts patient outcomes. For pediatrics, the most reliable way to gauge HRQOL is using the PedsQL instrument. SpellBound uses the PedsQL in our medical research. This article is a summary of HRQOL, PedsQL and our NIH-backed research.

On the surface, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) seem to be similar solutions to similar problems. But, if you look closer, their most prominent qualities are quite unique from each other, and they accomplish very different objectives.

As child life specialists, we often spend each day prioritizing our case load in order to provide the best care to each and every patient we can. Typically, our priorities change throughout the day as additional or more pressing needs come up, and so we restructure our day in order to meet those needs. However, all too often, we forget to prioritize one critical person – me.

March is Child Life Month, a month where hospitals around the world have the opportunity to celebrate child life specialists and the Child Life profession through education and raising awareness. Here are 10 ways you can kickstart your Child Life Month celebrations!

“It is a testament to the power of play and the importance of mobility that ARISE could go to market and be adopted during a global pandemic.”

Providing care to patients is a routine part of a provider’s day. This is a list of 8 ways to enrich the patient experience in healthcare to facilitate the best outcomes for care.

If you’ve ever tried to sleep in a hospital, you know that it doesn’t make for an ideal sleeping environment. However, sleep is too precious to waste for many children in hospitals— sleep has varying levels of impact on many different health outcomes, and lack of it can be disastrous.

As SpellBound's User Experience Designer, my primary job is to advocate for users — all users, of every type and kind. But one of the most overlooked groups of diverse users across technology is neurodivergent people and more specifically, autistic people. Because autism can look so different in the spectrum from person to person, it's sometimes hard to understand what users really need. This is why my personal superpowers are so important in advocating for users of all types: I'm autistic.