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Handout

Centers for Independent Living (CILs)

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AdultOTSLPHealth Management and Self AdvocacySpinal Cord InjuryStroke
This handout introduces clients to Centers for Independent Living (CILs), explaining what they are, what services they offer, and how to connect with a local center. Therapists can use it to empower clients with disabilities to access free, nationwide resources that support independence and community participation. (U.S.-based information).
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Handout

Adaptive Equipment Decision Guide: Dressing & Self-Care

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AdultOTADLs/IADLsAgingCaregiver SupportsChronic PainSpinal Cord InjuryStroke
Help your patients identify barriers to dressing, bathing, toileting, and grooming with this practical adaptive equipment guide. This compilation of one-page handouts offers clear safety checks, simple strategies, and tool recommendations you can review together in therapy and send home for continued practice.
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Handout

Large Print Basic Swallow Precautions (8 Languages)

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This large-print handout outlines five essential dysphagia precautions in clear, simple language with translations in 10 languages. Share it directly with patients and caregivers to reinforce safe swallowing strategies across settings. Includes English, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Vietnamese, Russian, Arabic, Somali, French, Tagolog, and Japanese.
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Clinical Reference Handout

How Alcohol Affects the Brain

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
This handout explains in simple terms how alcohol affects brain structures and thinking skills, using recent research to clear up confusion about “safe” drinking levels. Use it to guide discussions with patients about recovery, cognition, and practical choices around alcohol use.
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Therapy Material

6 Weekly Planner Templates

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
These six weekly planners are practical tools to target planning and organization during neuro rehab sessions. With multiple designs to choose from, you can match the format that best fits each patient’s needs and style.
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Handout

Broca’s Aphasia: The Basics

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AdultSLPAphasia
This handout gives patients and families a clear, one-page overview of Broca’s aphasia. Use it to support education, guide discussion, and reinforce communication strategies.
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Therapy Material

Cleaning Product Safety Cards

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OTSLPADLs/IADLsBrain InjuryStroke
Help patients build real-world safety skills with this card-based activity focused on household cleaning products. Designed for individuals returning home who manage their own cleaning, the activity encourages discussion, problem-solving, and awareness of hidden hazards without relying on worksheets or answer keys.
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Therapy Material

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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Therapy Material

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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Therapy Material

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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Handout

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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Handout

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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Therapy Material

Teoríade las cucharasy lesión cerebral traumática

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
La “Teoría de las Cucharas” fue creada por Christine Miserandino para ayudar a explicar cómo las lesiones cerebrales afectan los recursos de energía de una persona. Esta actividad grupal puede ayudar a iniciar una conversación sobre qué actividades mentales y físicas diarias “gastan cucharas” y cuáles “recuperan cucharas” para conservar energía. Esta actividad anima a la persona a identificar las tareas diarias específicas que gastan o recuperan cucharas y a planificar sus responsabilidades semanales usando esta estrategia. También se incluye una lista de actividades para ofrecer ideas sobre qué considerar al conservar energía.
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Handout

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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Handout

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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Handout

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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Handout Therapy Material

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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Handout

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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Therapy Material

Holiday Meal Time Planner (Thanksgiving Edition)

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Turn a holiday meal into meaningful practice with time, sequencing, and problem-solving. In session, clients use dish preparation and constraint cards with a lane-based schedule to map the day, practicing the same skills required to plan appointments, and daily routines.
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Therapy Material

Apraxia of Speech: Interest-Based Practice Toolkit

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SLPMotor Speech/Dysarthria/Apraxia
An interest-based practice menu for apraxia of speech that turns motor-learning principles into meaningful, high-rep therapy. Use the ready prompts (sports, research, art/music) to co-create targets, move from blocked to random practice, fade feedback, and carry gains into real-life tasks.
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