OT resources

Functional Movement Disorder

June 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout helps patients understand FMD in clear, compassionate language, reinforcing that their symptoms are real and treatable. It includes an overview of occupational therapy’s role in recovery, making it easy to share during education or goal-setting sessions.
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Everyday Foot Care for Life with Diabetes

June 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout helps people with diabetes understand why foot care matters and how to build simple, protective habits into their daily routine. It’s ideal for early education or as a supportive tool when signs of foot-related changes begin to appear.
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Visual Training Home Exercises Program

June 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource provides structured visual exercises designed specifically for post-stroke rehabilitation, targeting visual scanning, spatial awareness, and visual attention. Therapists can easily incorporate these activities into sessions to help clients regain visual skills, track improvements, and build confidence.
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Time and Attention Toolkit

June 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This toolkit helps clients build awareness of their time perception and attention patterns with a gentle self-check and practical strategy tables. Therapists can use it to guide personalized support for individuals navigating ADHD, brain injury, or executive functioning challenges.
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Silly Visual Categorization Game

June 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This playful categorization game is perfect for sparking language, imagination, and movement in therapy sessions. With open-ended visuals and silly categories, kids get to justify their choices, explore flexible thinking, and have fun without worrying about being “right.”
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Tools for Creating and Customizing Social Stories

June 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource introduces a range of digital tools therapists can use to create personalized, engaging social stories for clients working on social communication skills. It includes platform overviews, usage tips, and visual examples, making it easy to find the right tool for different therapy goals.
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Try This Instead: Alternatives to Time-Outs

June 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout offers gentle, practical alternatives to time-outs that prioritize connection and emotional regulation, especially helpful for children who experience the world differently. It’s designed to support therapists in guiding parents through real-life scenarios with strategies that build trust, not isolation.
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Real-Life Phone Use: Tools for Teens

June 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This interactive activity helps therapists support middle and high school students in reflecting on their phone use with non-shaming, real-world strategies. This resource opens the door to meaningful conversations about digital habits, emotional regulation, and self-awareness.
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Repetición de estrategias cognitivas: Cálculos de tarjetas de regalo

June 23, 2025 by Megan Berg.
Esta actividad de neurorrehabilitación simula un desafío del mundo real: verificar y usar saldos de tarjetas de regalo con estrategias cognitivas. Es una forma práctica de trabajar la atención, la resolución de problemas y las funciones ejecutivas después de una lesión cerebral.
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The “Time Budget” Challenge

May 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
Help teens take control of their busy schedules with The Time Budget Challenge, a practical activity designed to build time management and planning skills. This resource guides students through organizing their weekly commitments, balancing school, extracurriculars, and downtime, so they can develop healthy habits for managing their workload independently.
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