Taking Kids
From Play to Z

Fun and effective products and resources to help you empower your kid to succeed

Taking Kids
From Play to Z

Fun and effective products and resources to help you empower your kid to succeed

About From Play to Z

At From Play to Z, we believe that there is no better activity than play to expand a child’s capacity to learn. But not all play is created equal. So, we meticulously develop content, products, and resources that transform play into an opportunity for meaningful development, without sacrificing the most important ingredient – fun!

Our products are developed by active professionals with 30+ years of experience to solve long-standing problems like attention deficit disorder (ADD), pencil grasp, and visual motor skills. We also create resources and tools for professionals to make their jobs easier and more effective

From Experience to Solutions

Will Harris began a journey in developmental pediatrics in the early 1990s as a pediatric occupational therapist. His speciality was and is helping kids through optimizing play for needed skill development.

His methods never quite followed standard practice as he has a truly analytical method. Though very pragmatic, he found that the most important thing was fostering early and consistent success through management of the demands of the activities. Children, well any individuals, are more likely to do something when they believe they can do it. So he became very effective in creating specialized curriculum and activities to promote consistent development through successful engagements.

The thing is, though, practice can be boring. The secret ingredient, he found, is a splash of fun. The genesis of our offerings is 30 years of evolving methods to help children in various stages of development develop cognitive, behavioral, motor, sensory, and perceptual skills development for their primary job of being a student.

For many years he practiced as a school-based therapist and owned a private pediatric therapy company. In this time he worked with thousands of kids. He founded, and for 13 years ran a school for severely physically impaired children. He and his staff helped children with severe learning impairments realize profound success in learning that were rarely seen or expected of that population.

After meeting with long-time friend, Matt Alexander, co-founder of tech company, Cognetik, the duo decided to create products and offerings to help thousands of kids around the world instead of one kid at a time. Embedded inside of all of our products is 30 years of experience, learnings, and evolved practices in the field of developmental pediatrics.

Key Milestones

1995

First use of the Color Bumper system in active therapy for children with motor skill challenges

1999

Founders Will Harris and Matt Alexander met while working at the central offices of Orange County Schools in Central Florida.

2004

Development of the first version of The HandRight

2009

Will Harris launched a school in Central Florida for children with disabilities and further developed various developmental strategies

2022

Kynesius, the parent company of From Play to Z was founded

2023

Engaged an engineering firm to develop the new perfected version of The HandRight

2024

Development of the first book of the Color-N-Read series

2025

Launching our first two flagship products: The HandRight and Cat Cat Don’t Do That! In the Living Room.

Our Vision

To create products and resources so universally helpful that we see children using them around the world.

We are always working on new products to promote the success of children.
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Our Purpose

To look at things differently and make new and exciting resources to solve long-standing challenges faced by children in the development of skills needed for life and learning.

Our Passions

Caring for Kids

The journey to lifelong success begins in the sandbox, not the boardroom. The most crucial foundations for learning, creativity, and social-emotional intelligence are established during early childhood development

Helping the Helpers

Providing parents, teachers, and other professionals effective resources to meet the needs of the kids in their lives.

Success as a Fuel

If you strike out 100 times in a row, it is less likely that you’ll want to play baseball. With that in mind we believe success is the primary fuel for desire to engage in activities.

Stimulating Fun

If the kid is having fun, they won’t even realize how beneficial it is to their development. Like playing a game of basketball, you are having fun while developing motor coordination and cardiovascular health.

The Power of Play

Play in itself is a valuable learning experience for the child. But enriching play with designed demands and informed expectations promotes engagement and success and, therefore, takes play to another level of development.

Enriching Journey

All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten. Well, it’s not really true, but our foundation of function is built at an early stage. It is essential that enrichment occurs as early as possible in life. The greater enrichment, the better the foundation for what comes later. Development is a lifelong journey.

Perpetual Improvement

We strive to continually improve our products and resources so that parents, family, teachers, and other professionals can be better equipped to help their children improve.

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From Us to You

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We publish free tips and resources to our social media accounts multiple times a week. We write with you in mind. Whether you are a family member, friend, caregiver, teacher, occupational therapist, or you fill another role in a kid’s life, you will find helpful content on our social media accounts, in our newsletter, on our Blog, and on our Resources page.

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From You to Us

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Feel free to email us at contact@kynesius.com, or direct message us on our social accounts. We’d love to connect with you.

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