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What to Expect During End of Life Care: A Guide for Families

March 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This guide helps families understand the natural process of the body shutting down during end-of-life care, with a focus on the emotional challenges surrounding nutrition and hydration. It provides evidence-based explanations and practical tips to help families feel reassured, offering therapists a warm and accessible resource to share during these profound moments.
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Supporting Your Child’s Vestibular Development: A Parent’s Guide

March 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This parent-friendly handout explains how the vestibular system develops, why it varies across children, and how movement supports its growth. It also provides practical, reassuring guidance for parents, along with signs that may indicate a child could benefit from vestibular-focused therapy.
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Feelings Check-In

March 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource helps children build emotional awareness by identifying, describing, and mapping their emotions using sensory and size-based cues. Designed for speech and occupational therapy, it supports language development, interoception, and self-regulation, giving kids the tools to express and manage their feelings with greater clarity.
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Helping Kids Understand Circles of Control

March 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
Help kids navigate anxiety and frustration by exploring what they can control, what they can influence, and what is out of their hands. This interactive activity encourages reflection, builds resilience, and gives kids a practical framework to focus their energy on what truly matters.
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The Multi-Axis Sensory Spectrum Analysis Tool

March 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource helps therapists visually map a child’s sensory processing profile across different sensory systems, making it easier to identify patterns of sensory-seeking, avoiding, or under-responsiveness. With a structured 0-10 rating scale, this tool supports collaborative discussions with caregivers and guides intervention strategies tailored to each child’s unique needs.
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Caterpillar to Butterfly: Cut and Paste Sequencing Activity

March 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
Help kids strengthen sequencing, fine motor, and language skills with this engaging cut-and-paste activity! Perfect for speech and occupational therapy, this resource supports storytelling, vocabulary growth, and motor coordination while exploring the butterfly life cycle.
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10 principios de neuroplasticidad

February 28, 2025 by Megan Berg.
Este resumen visual de los diez principios de la neuroplasticidad ofrece a los terapeutas una herramienta rápida y fácil de consultar para explicar conceptos clave a los pacientes durante las sesiones de terapia. Es perfecto para iniciar conversaciones y ayuda a los pacientes a comprender cómo los ejercicios específicos pueden transformar su cerebro para facilitar la recuperación.
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¿Dónde está la persona que conozco y amo? El impacto transformador de las lesiones en el hemisferio derecho del cerebro

February 28, 2025 by Megan Berg.
Este recurso está creado para ayudar a los miembros de la familia a comprender los cambios profundos que pueden suceder tras una lesión en el hemisferio derecho del cerebro. Ofrece información sobre las diferencias entre las lesiones en los hemisferios izquierdo y derecho, cómo pueden cambiar la personalidad y el comportamiento, y presenta preguntas que invitan a la reflexión para ayudar a las familias a redefinir roles y ajustar expectativas. Comparte este recurso con las familias para apoyar su camino a través de esta transformación y recomendar que lleven estas preguntas a la terapia para obtener más orientación.
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