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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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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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Visual Sequencing Board: Dressing Routine

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionFine Motor
Help kids gain independence with dressing using this customizable visual sequencing board. With simple outlines or personalized photo options, therapists can break down routines into manageable steps that match each child’s needs.
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The Productive Detour Worksheet

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive Function
This worksheet helps young adults with ADHD identify their avoidance patterns, understand the needs those behaviors may be meeting, and reframe them into supportive steps toward task progress. Use it within a coaching model to reduce shame, build self-awareness, and guide clients in turning “detours” into momentum.
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Environmental Anchors: A Memory and Organization Strategy

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionPediatric Brain Injury
This worksheet helps clients with ADHD or TBI externalize focus using environmental anchors, which are practical cues that support memory, attention, and follow-through. Use it to guide clients in identifying barriers, selecting anchors, and reflecting on what works best.
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How Often Is Best? Understanding Therapy Frequency for Your Child

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PediatricOTSLPArticulation and PhonologyFeeding and SwallowingLanguage DevelopmentPediatric Brain Injury
This handout helps parents understand therapy frequency models in a clear, collaborative way, emphasizing that therapists typically make recommendations while parents’ insights shape the plan. Use it to guide conversations about scheduling and empower families to ask questions and feel confident in the decision-making process.
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Three Games for Movement, Language, and Connection

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PediatricOTSLPLanguage DevelopmentSensory
This parent handout offers three simple, low-prep games that build language, movement, and connection without requiring special toys. Use it in therapy to give parents practical, repeatable play ideas they can try at home right away.
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Play Without Pressure

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage Development
A parent-friendly handout for families who find play tricky, covering why imaginative play matters, “follow-their-lead” basics, and age-banded quick-start ideas. Use it in session to model simple play coaching and send home as a one-pager with scripts, prompts, and low-pressure ways to build connection and language.
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Why Kids Need Boredom

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage Development
This parent handout helps therapists reframe “I’m bored” as practice time for planning, flexible thinking, and follow-through. It offers 20 fun, connection-building ideas kids can start on their own (letters, mini museums, recipe cards, window galleries) plus quick coaching tips so caregivers can support without rescuing.
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Texture Transition: Choose-Your-Own Adventure

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Use this flexible, parent-friendly handout to help families navigate texture transitions from smooths to soft finger foods without a rigid sequence. This resource supports shared decision-making, emphasizes regulation and safety, and helps families pair exploration with familiar, satiating foods.
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Habit Stacking Worksheet

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive Function
Use this one-page, interactive worksheet to teach habit-stacking in plain language and help people with ADHD or brain injury link a tiny action to a routine they already do. Clear examples, fill-in prompts, and a 7-day tracker guide you and your client to place tools where the habit happens, plan for bumps, and build consistent follow-through.
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Phones at School: Holding Tensions and Finding Solutions

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive Function
Use this one-page handout (inspired by Jonathan Haidt) to start a calm, evidence-aware conversation about phones, attention, and school. It explains executive function in plain language, acknowledges real-world tensions, and offers cross-stakeholder questions you can use in session, IEP meetings, or parent nights.
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ADHD Roadblock Reframes: A Guided Activity for Mindset Shifts

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive Function
This guided activity helps clients with ADHD reframe self-critical thoughts through therapist-led reflection and collaborative mindset shifts. Use it to explore internalized stigma, build self-compassion, and connect real-life challenges with supportive, strengths-based language.
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Your Pediatric Dysphagia Team

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Use this quick reference to introduce families to each key player (SLP, OT, dietitian, pediatrician, GI, ENT, and nurse) and clearly explain how each contributes to safe, effective swallowing care.
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Who I Am Now: An Identity Map for Kids After Brain Injury

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PediatricSLPPediatric Brain Injury
This identity map helps children explore who they are becoming after a brain injury, with prompts that honor both what’s stayed the same and what’s changing. Use this tool to support reflection, emotional expression, and the transformative process of rebuilding a sense of self.
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Whose Turn? A Pronoun Activity Using One Scene and Character Cards

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This activity supports pronoun development using a park scene and character cards that state each person’s name and pronouns. Guide students to describe what each character is doing in the scene, building grammar skills while modeling respectful, identity-affirming language.
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Helping Kids Find Their Voice: Exhalation Activities for Tracheostomy and Post-Ventilation

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PediatricSLPPediatric Voice
This resource offers evidence-informed, voice-centered exhalation activities for children with tracheostomies or post-ventilation recovery. Support early voicing in a developmentally appropriate, play-based way without relying on non-speech oral motor exercises.
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