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Toothbrushing Without Meltdowns

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PediatricOTSensory
Help parents turn toothbrushing struggles into stress-free routines with practical, sensory-friendly strategies tailored for children with diverse needs. This handout empowers families to foster autonomy, build positive habits, and create meaningful connections during daily care routines.
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Picky Eating: Honoring Preferences While Encouraging Growth

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Help parents navigate the sensitive topic of picky eating with this thoughtfully designed handout. Packed with practical, pressure-free strategies and a compassionate tone, it empowers families to support their child’s feeding journey while honoring sensory needs and building positive mealtime connections.
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Screen-Free Shopping: Small Tasks, Big Growth

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage Development
Shopping trips can be more than a task to check off your to-do list—they’re rich with opportunities to help children learn, connect, and grow. This handout offers therapists a variety of simple, practical strategies to share with families, turning everyday errands into engaging moments that build social, emotional, and cognitive skills. With ideas tailored for both toddlers and school-aged children, this resource helps make screen-free moments not only manageable but meaningful.
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Playful Connection: Games for Babies and Toddlers Who Aren’t Talking Yet

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This resource provides simple, play-based games to help parents who may be struggling to feel connected with their non-speaking or late-talking babies and toddlers. Designed for therapists to share with families, it emphasizes that meaningful connection through play lays the foundation for communication and growth, even without words.
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Songs for Moving and Talking (with Spotify playlist)

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PediatricOTSLPLanguage DevelopmentSensory
Music can transform therapy sessions, adding energy, focus, and creativity while supporting essential developmental skills. This Spotify playlist is designed to help therapists engage children through fun, interactive songs that encourage movement, social-emotional growth, and language development. With a variety of tempos, styles, and themes, these tracks provide adaptable tools to enhance therapy goals and make sessions both effective and enjoyable for kids of all ages.
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Understanding and Supporting Slow-to-Warm-Up Kids

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PediatricOTSLPLanguage Development
This handout helps parents understand and support “slow-to-warm-up” kids, celebrating their thoughtful and observant nature rather than trying to change it. Perfect for therapists to share, it includes practical strategies for fostering confidence and connection at the child’s own pace.
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Smooth Transitions: Helping Kids Move from One Thing to the Next

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage Development
This resource equips parents with practical strategies to help kids transition smoothly between activities, reducing stress for both parent and child. Perfect for therapists to share in therapy, it includes actionable tips, sample scripts, and a set of cut-out visual aids to support young children through transitions.
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Gestalt Language Theory: A Parent’s Guide

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PediatricSLPAutismLanguage Development
This parent-friendly handout explains gestalt language processing and how therapy supports children in developing flexible, meaningful communication. Perfect for therapists to share, it provides an overview of the therapy approach, stages of development, and practical tips for supporting progress at home.
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What to Expect in Play-Based Therapy

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PediatricOTSLPAACArticulation and PhonologyAutismExecutive FunctionLanguage DevelopmentPediatric Brain InjurySensory
Help parents understand the principles of play-based therapy and how it supports their child’s development. This resource provides therapists with clear, parent-friendly explanations to share, making the therapy process approachable and meaningful.
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Clinical Reference

ChatGPT Prompt Structure for SOAP Notes

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AdultPediatricOTSLPBrain InjuryExecutive FunctionLanguage DevelopmentSensoryStroke
Streamline your documentation process with this guide to using ChatGPT for crafting accurate and efficient SOAP notes. Designed for therapists, this resource provides customizable prompts and tips to help you focus on patient care while maintaining high-quality records.
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Supporting Sensory Balance: Vagal Tone Activities for Kids

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PediatricOTSLPSensory
This resource offers therapists evidence-based strategies to share with families of children with sensory processing differences, focusing on vagal tone activities that promote calm and self-regulation. With simple techniques like deep breathing and gentle movement, parents can help their children return to a balanced state after stress.
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Clinical Reference Handout

Beyond Protocols: Supporting Children’s Unique Sensory Preferences

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PediatricOTSLPSensory
Includes practical tools to help children with tactile sensitivities in a way that respects their individual needs and boundaries. This resource empowers therapists to work collaboratively with families, helping children feel safe and supported while navigating everyday sensory experiences.
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Visualizing Posterior Tongue Ties

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PediatricOTSLPArticulation and PhonologyFeeding and Swallowing
This resource is not intended to guide clinicians in diagnosing or treating posterior tongue ties; rather, it provides a clear visual to help illustrate the concept. Our goal is to empower patients and families with the information they need to make their own informed decisions about potential treatment options.
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Feeding Your Pre-Term Baby: A Guide for Parents

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This guide supports parents of pre-term infants in navigating the unique challenges of feeding, offering gentle advice and reassurance as they provide nutrition for their baby. It’s designed to help parents trust their instincts and follow their baby’s cues, reinforcing that there’s no single “right” way to feed their child.
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A Family Guide to Intentional Screen Time

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage DevelopmentSensory
Help families think meaningfully about screen time with this guide that explores both the benefits and challenges of digital devices in daily life. With thoughtful questions and easy-to-follow steps, this resource supports families in creating a balanced, intentional approach to screen time that aligns with their unique goals and values.
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Returning to School After a Brain Injury

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PediatricOTSLPPediatric Brain Injury
This resource offers practical tips for parents, teachers, and students to help ease the transition back to school following a brain injury. Organized by preschool, elementary, and high school age groups, it provides clear, actionable advice tailored to each developmental stage. Therapists can use this resource to guide families and educators in supporting the child’s academic, social, and emotional needs, fostering a smooth return to the classroom.
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Real Life Messy Play: A Parent’s Guide

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionSensory
This resource helps parents understand the importance of messy play in childhood development, highlighting how sensory-rich, hands-on activities promote motor skills, problem-solving, creativity, and emotional regulation. It also provides a practical list of easy and accessible messy play ideas that parents can implement at home, using everyday items. Therapists can share this resource with parents to encourage playful, meaningful developmental experiences that can be incorporated into daily routines.
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Clinical Reference Handout

Exercises After Frenotomy: Outdated or Evidence-Based?

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PediatricSLPArticulation and PhonologyFeeding and Swallowing
This resource provides an in-depth look at the role of post-frenotomy exercises, including the historical context, current controversies, and research on the effectiveness of these exercises across different age groups- infants, children, and adults. With a focus on evidence-based recommendations, this guide encourages patients and parents to make informed decisions in collaboration with their healthcare providers.
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Breaking the Habit of Asking Questions to Elicit Language

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This resource helps parents move away from relying on constant questions to encourage their child’s language development. It provides age-appropriate strategies to foster spontaneous speech through observations, sentence expansions, and emotional acknowledgment. Share this guide with parents to support more natural and engaging communication with their children, from infancy through the teenage years.
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Heavy Work for Sensory Regulation: A Parent’s Guide

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PediatricOTSLPSensory
Share this resource with parents to help them understand the benefits of heavy work for their child’s sensory regulation. It provides simple, play-based activities that children can do at home to promote calming, focus, and body awareness. The guide encourages parents to incorporate heavy work into daily routines in a fun and natural way, helping their child regulate sensory input without feeling forced or overwhelmed.
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