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Adaptive Equipment Decision Guide: Dressing & Self-Care

November 30, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
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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Teoríade las cucharasy lesión cerebral traumática

October 31, 2025 by Megan Berg.
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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Huntington’s Disease and Occupational Therapy

March 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
Occupational therapy provides powerful supports for patients and families navigating the challenges of Huntington’s Disease. This overview provides patients and families with a clear picture of how OT supports independence, safety, and meaningful daily living at every stage of the journey.
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Making the Most Out of Your Long-term Cancer Hospitalization

August 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.
Inspire your patients to engage in OT during long-term hospital stays with this handout. Instead of discharging these patients from occupational therapy care, there is great opportunity to provide meaningful intervention and connection during a lengthy hospital stay. OT intervention can promote dignity during a very challenging time.
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Knee Replacement and Occupational Therapy

July 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout provides education on safety, adaptive equipment, considerations for discharge after a knee replacement, and the role of occupational therapists.
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Child-Rearing

April 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource covers ways to work on child-rearing skills in functional therapy.
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