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Helping Kids Feel Ready: The Power of Priming

December 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
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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What Kids Learn When They’re Bored

December 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
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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Real-Life Problem Solving: Redefining Executive Function Support for Junior High Students

December 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
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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Environmental Anchors: A Memory and Organization Strategy

November 30, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
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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The Productive Detour Worksheet

November 30, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
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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Visual Sequencing Board: Dressing Routine

November 30, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
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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Play Without Pressure

October 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
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

October 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
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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Habit Stacking Worksheet

October 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
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

October 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
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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