Clinical Resources : Therapy Insights

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The Developing Hand: Carpal Bone Ossification

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PediatricOTSensory

This handout helps therapists clearly explain the structural differences between the infant and adult airway in a way families can understand. Use it during feeding or swallowing discussions to connect anatomy to real-world function and support collaborative, informed decision-making.

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PICU Environmental Mapping

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This family-facing handout helps parents identify small, realistic environmental adjustments in the PICU that can reduce sensory overload and support regulation during long hospital stays.

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Visual Processing and Gestalt Language

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PediatricSLPLanguage DevelopmentPediatric Brain Injury

This activity helps support global visual processing and meaning-making in children with right hemisphere brain damage, without overemphasizing details or “right answers.” It offers flexible, gestalt-friendly prompts that honor how each child interprets context, emotion, and what matters most in a visual scene.

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The Suck–Swallow–Breathe Brainstem Reflex

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing

This handout helps therapists clearly explain how the suck–swallow–breathe reflex is controlled by the brainstem and why feeding coordination can be disrupted. It gives clinicians a simple, visual way to normalize feeding challenges and support calm, informed conversations with families.

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Basic Anatomy: The Infant vs. Adult Airway

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing

This handout helps therapists clearly explain the structural differences between the infant and adult airway in a way families can understand. Use it during feeding or swallowing discussions to connect anatomy to real-world function and support collaborative, informed decision-making.

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Food Scripts for Caregivers

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing

This handout gives caregivers simple, supportive scripts they can use during meal time to reduce pressure, ease anxiety, and honor each child’s sensory and emotional experience with food. It offers language that models curiosity, autonomy, and connection without giving nutrition advice or pushing a child to eat.

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Therapy Material

What My Brain Is Trying to Do

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PediatricOTSLPAutismExecutive Function

This handout helps kids build insight by framing behaviors as adaptive brain strategies rather than problems to fix. Use it to guide compassionate conversations, support self-awareness, and strengthen collaboration between kids and the adults in their lives.

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Real-World AAC Partner Skills (For Adults Communicating With Kids)

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PediatricSLPAAC

This handout teaches adults how to support real-world communication with children who use AAC through simple, respectful partner strategies. Use it to guide families, teachers, and caregivers toward interactions that build autonomy, connection, and confidence.

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Collaborative Behavior Supports

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This resource reframes challenging behaviors as clues to unmet needs, lagging skills, and environmental mismatches, helping teams move beyond compliance-based approaches. The table format provides a practical way to collaborate with families and schools, identify what’s happening under the surface, and choose supportive strategies that honor each child’s autonomy and nervous system.

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Routines Built By Kids, Not For Them

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PediatricOTSLPAutismExecutive FunctionLanguage Development

This resource gives kids the lead in shaping their own routines, helping them identify what makes transitions easier and what supports they prefer. Use these templates to co-create meaningful, shareable plans that honor autonomy and reduce overwhelm.

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Early Communication & Social Development: Patterns Worth Exploring

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PediatricOTSLPArticulation and PhonologyAutismExecutive FunctionLanguage Development

This handout offers a warm, neurodiversity-affirming way to talk with families about early communication and social patterns that may benefit from extra support. Use it to open collaborative, low-pressure conversations with parents while highlighting strengths and inviting next steps when helpful.

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Clinical Reference

Examining the Evidence for Pediatric Thickeners

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing

This clinical reference breaks down the evidence behind pediatric thickeners, helping you navigate when and how thickening may support safer feeding. It offers clear comparisons, risk considerations, and talking points for collaborating with families so decisions reflect both physiology and patient values.

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Creating a Realistic and Appropriate Roadmap to Tube Weaning: A Guide for Therapists

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing

This reference gives you a practical roadmap for understanding the stages of tube weaning and how your therapeutic role fits into each one. Use it to support oral-motor readiness, caregiver confidence, and interdisciplinary teamwork throughout the process.

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How to Spot Predatory Speech and Language Treatments

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PediatricSLPApraxia of SpeechArticulation and PhonologyAutismExecutive FunctionFluencyLanguage Development

This resource equips parents with tools to spot misleading “quick fix” speech products and understand why these claims can feel so convincing. Use it to support informed decision-making and protect families from false hope and unnecessary costs.

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Accepting a Child’s “No”: Building Confidence, Boundaries, and Self-Advocacy

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage Development

This handout shows parents how respecting a child’s “no” strengthens confidence, trust, and safety, which are skills children with disabilities need throughout their lives. Use it to open conversations about boundaries, cooperation, and honoring a child’s voice.

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Real-Life Problem Solving: Redefining Executive Function Support for Junior High Students

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive Function

This guide helps therapists move beyond workbook-style executive function activities by engaging junior high students in real-world reflection about how they actually plan, organize, and problem-solve. It provides concrete language, conversation frameworks, and mindset shifts to create psychological safety, reduce shame, and build genuine self-understanding and advocacy.

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What Kids Learn When They’re Bored

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage Development

This handout helps parents understand the developmental value of boredom during everyday moments like waiting in line or riding in the car. It offers gentle language you can use to reframe screen-free time as an opportunity for kids to build self-regulation, creativity, and curiosity.

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Helping Kids Feel Ready: The Power of Priming

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage DevelopmentSensory

This one-page parent handout introduces the concept of priming, which helps kids anticipate what’s coming next through stories, videos, or conversation. Use this to support families who often feel caught off guard by their child’s big reactions in new situations.

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Supporting Your Child’s Healthy Relationship With Food: A Guide for Parents Navigating Feeding Challenges

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing

This handout helps parents understand how to foster a positive, trusting relationship with food, especially when feeding challenges make mealtimes stressful. Use it to guide conversations about responsive feeding, reduce mealtime pressure, and provide language that supports autonomy and body awareness.

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Handling Toddler Aggression

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PediatricOTSLPLanguage Development

This handout helps parents understand and respond to toddler aggression through calm boundary setting and supportive communication. Use it to coach families on preventing power struggles, teaching emotional regulation, and fostering connection, especially for children with limited speech or developmental differences.

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