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Signs of Self-Care in Kids With ADHD

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive Function
This handout helps therapists reframe “challenging” behaviors in kids with ADHD as meaningful attempts at self-regulation within demanding environments. It offers simple, practical language and response strategies that therapists can use to guide parents, teachers, and caregivers toward more supportive, effective interactions.
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Therapy Activity

Let’s Talk About Therapy: Collaborative Goal Planning for Kids (Age 8+)

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PediatricOTSLPAutismExecutive FunctionFine MotorFluencyLanguage DevelopmentLiteracyPediatric Brain InjuryPediatric VoiceSensory
This guided activity helps therapists invite kids into honest conversations about their therapy experience, including what’s working, what’s not, and what they want more of. Use it to co-create goals that reflect the child’s preferences, not just the paperwork.
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Personalized Visual Map of Brain Injury Changes (For Kids)

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PediatricOTSLPPediatric Brain Injury
This child-friendly brain map helps you walk through how a brain injury may be affecting a child in a way that feels concrete, collaborative, and easy to understand. Use it to support shared insight, guide goal-setting, and help kids put words to what feels harder in their day-to-day life.
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Helping Kids Understand Their Body Cues Around Food

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PediatricFeeding and Swallowing
This two-page resource provides a visual and language-based tool to help kids understand and communicate body cues like hunger and fullness during mealtimes. It supports the development of interoceptive awareness while guiding adults to respond in ways that respect the child’s cues and build trust in their own body.
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Navigating the Big World of Sensitive Kids

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage DevelopmentSensory
A concise handout to help parents understand highly sensitive kids through the lens of regulation, sensory processing, and communication instead of just behavior alone. Use this resource to guide supportive conversations and offer simple, in-the-moment strategies that respect the child’s experience while building long-term skills.
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Stimming is Self-Regulation

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PediatricOTSLPAutismSensory
This resource provides therapists with a neurodiversity-affirming framework to help caregivers and educators shift from viewing stimming as a behavior to manage to a vital tool for sensory regulation. It serves as an essential psychoeducational handout to validate a client’s natural coping mechanisms while fostering more supportive, inclusive environments in schools and homes.
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Handout

Moving Forward: Navigating Neurogenic Bladder/Bowel Changes

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AdultOTBowel/Bladder
This resource is a dignity-first tool designed to help your clients move past the shame of neurogenic dysfunction by reframing accidents as neurological events and data points rather than personal failures. It shifts the clinical focus from mere symptom management to a collaborative, values-based approach that empowers clients to set goals centered on their own autonomy and lifestyle.
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Therapy Activity

Music Recovery: Reconnecting Musicians with Notes, Rhythm, and Play

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
Reconnect musicians with the language of music through large-print notes, rhythms, and simple melodies designed for brain injury rehabilitation. This activity helps therapists support visual scanning, cognitive recovery, and meaningful identity-based engagement through music.
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Tips and Tricks for Essential Tremors

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AdultOTNervous System Conditions
This handout helps therapists introduce practical, real-world strategies that can make everyday tasks easier for people living with tremor. Use it to support conversations about independence, reduce stigma, and explore small environmental or behavioral adjustments that may improve daily functioning.
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Handout

Voting From Home: A Guide for Voters with Disabilities (United States)

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AdultOTSLPAgingAphasiaBrain InjuryHealth Management and Self AdvocacyMotor Speech/Dysarthria/ApraxiaProgressive Neurological ConditionsSpinal Cord InjuryStroke
This handout helps your clients navigate the voting process and feel empowered to share their voices from home. It’s designed to turn a complex task into a clear, supportive roadmap, ensuring every member of our community can exercise their right to vote with confidence.
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Therapy Activity

Preparing to Return to Work: A Reflection and Planning Worksheet

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryHealth Management and Self AdvocacyStroke
This person-centered worksheet empowers clients to take the lead in their vocational transition by transforming clinical assessments into a collaborative, checkbox-driven roadmap. It provides a structured yet flexible framework for therapists to help clients identify specific workplace needs, navigate communication preferences, and build autonomy throughout the return-to-work process.
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Handout

Basic Anatomy: Swallow Residue

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout provides clear explanations of what pharyngeal residue looks and feels like to help patients visualize their swallow mechanics. It serves as a practical education tool for reinforcing real-time clearing strategies.
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Therapy Activity

Press 9: Practicing Immediate Recall with Phone Menus

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
Practice immediate recall and working memory using realistic automated phone menus your clients might encounter in everyday life. Clients listen to recorded customer service options and decide which number to press, while experimenting with strategies that help them remember information in the moment.
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Handout

Low Vision Med List Template

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryHealth Management and Self AdvocacyProgressive Neurological ConditionsStrokeVision
This large-print medication list helps therapists support clients with low vision in organizing and managing their medications more independently. The simple, high-contrast layout allows information to be written clearly and displayed in the home for easy reference by the client, caregivers, and healthcare providers.
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Therapy Activity

Comparing Health Insurance Plans: A Real-World Problem Solving Activity

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryHealth Management and Self AdvocacyStroke
This activity helps therapists guide patients through comparing three realistic health insurance plans while working through common medical scenarios and estimating out-of-pocket costs. It targets high-level functional cognition by encouraging patients to practice strategies for navigating complex documents, identifying key information, and reasoning through real-world financial decisions related to healthcare.
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Handout

Medication Management: The Color Method for Low Vision

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryHealth Management and Self AdvocacyStrokeVision
This resource provides a streamlined, high-contrast framework for therapists to help clients with low vision regain autonomy and safety in their daily medical routines. By utilizing tactile neon bands and color-coded visual cues, clinicians can offer a practical, at-a-glance solution that bridges the gap between clinical prescription and independent home management.
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Handout

Understanding Listening Fatigue and Cognitive Load in Deaf/HOH Students

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PediatricSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage Development
This handout helps teachers, parents, and caregivers understand the hidden effort children with hearing loss experience when using hearing devices. It offers simple, practical ways to reduce listening demands, support energy levels, and create environments that work with the child’s capacity.
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Handout

Beyond Taking the Bite: Why Autonomy is the Goal of Feeding Therapy

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This resource provides therapists with a research-backed framework to help families shift from compliance-based feeding to a model centered on interoception and body autonomy. By bridging the gap between clinical theory and practical kitchen table boundaries, it empowers parents to trade the mealtime power struggle for a relationship built on trust and sensory safety.
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Handout

Flip the Script: From Feeding Pressure to Observation

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This resource provides therapists with a practical bridge between clinical autonomy theory and the high-pressure reality of the family dinner table. By offering declarative language swaps, it empowers parents to move from being food salespeople to neutral sensory observers, effectively lowering a child’s nervous system defenses.
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Exploring Food Aversion Through Play

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This resource provides therapists with a playful, sensory-based framework for desensitizing food aversions without the pressure of oral intake. It allows clinicians to guide families through low-stakes interaction and tactile exploration that honors a child’s boundaries.
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