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Food Scripts for Caregivers

February 27, 2026 by Megan Berg.
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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Examining the Evidence for Pediatric Thickeners

January 31, 2026 by Megan Berg.
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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How Often Is Best? Understanding Therapy Frequency for Your Child

November 30, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
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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Texture Transition: Choose-Your-Own Adventure

October 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
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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Your Pediatric Dysphagia Team

September 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
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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Adaptive Feeding Tools for Kids

August 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource offers a curated list of adaptive feeding tools (both well-known and outside-the-box) to support children’s independence, comfort, and success during mealtimes. Therapists can use it to guide families in selecting practical, personalized tools that match each child’s unique motor and sensory needs.
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Writing Life Participation Goals: Beyond the Impairment

August 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource helps therapists shift from impairment-driven goals to life participation goals that reflect what truly matters to the individual. It includes real-world goal examples and a worksheet to support writing goals that center autonomy, connection, and everyday engagement.
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Pacifiers: Finding Balance as a Parent

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout offers a balanced, compassionate overview of pacifier use, helping parents understand both the benefits and considerations without overwhelming them with conflicting advice. It’s a supportive tool for therapists to guide conversations about infant soothing, feeding, and developmental choices in a judgment-free way.
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