My Special Aflac Duck®
This soft and cuddly companion helps children prepare for medical procedures, communicate their feelings, practice distraction techniques and so much more.
Aflac is committed to supporting families with children diagnosed with cancer or a blood disorder like sickle cell and the medical professionals who provide compassionate care for them when they need it most.
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Making a real impact
My Special Aflac Duck has been evaluated in a longitudinal clinical trial with 160 patients between ages 3 and 10, across 8 hospitals in the US. Patients were randomly assigned to receive My Special Aflac Duck or their local hospital’s standard care. Preliminary findings suggest patients who interacted with My Special Aflac Duck experienced reductions in distress, nausea, pain, and treatment and procedural anxiety compared to patients who did not.
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Medical Play Accessories
The duck is designed to accompany kids during treatment and can be used in medical play. The duck comes equipped with a port-a-cath, stethoscope, pulse oximeter, syringe and even self-adherent wrap.
Feeling Cards
Children can communicate their feelings by tapping one of the 7 included feeling cards to the lights on the duck’s chest!
Soundscape Spaceship
Designed with child life specialists and psychologists, Soundscapes™ let children listen to sounds of a forest, ocean, farm or amusement park - perfect for practicing distraction therapy.
Download the Free App
Download the free companion app to extend the duck’s features and discover the duck’s virtual world.
More than just a duck
We’ve developed resources such as therapeutic activities, how-to-videos, and use cases for how to implement My Special Aflac Duck® into patient care. Visit the Resource Hub to learn more.
Visit the Resource HubFamily focused from the start
We designed My Special Aflac Duck hand-in-hand with more than 100 families undergoing treatment at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to create a companion that provides comfort and joy.