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Nutrition Label Sorting Activity

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This adapted nutrition label sorting activity helps clients build visual scanning and comparison skills using real-life food labels. Designed to spark meaningful conversations rather than deliver right-or-wrong answers, it supports flexible, person-centered therapy across cognitive levels.
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Montessori-Inspired Approaches to Dementia Care and Therapy

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout introduces families and care partners to Montessori-inspired principles that support dignity, autonomy, and engagement in dementia care. It’s a helpful tool for therapists to share during sessions to spark meaningful conversations and encourage person-centered approaches at home.
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Returning to Work: Preparing for and Practicing Job Interview Skills

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource helps people with brain injuries prepare for the return to work by offering practical interview tips, self-advocacy scripts, and practice questions. Therapists can use it to guide discussions around transparency, readiness, and building confidence for the job search process.
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Mindful Eating Reflection Guide

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This mindful eating reflection guide helps clients build a more supportive, curious relationship with food by focusing on sensory experience, emotional awareness, and self-compassion. It’s designed for therapists to use in sessions with individuals exploring eating habits as part of their daily routines, without promoting restrictive or judgmental approaches.
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Writing Meaningful Documentation That Reflects Skilled Therapy

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource helps you document in a way that clearly reflects clinical reasoning, adaptability, and person-centered care, without drowning in jargon. It includes examples, rewrite tips, and reflective tools to support skilled, meaningful therapy notes.
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Managing Trismus: What We Know, What We Don’t, and What You Can Try

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout helps patients understand what trismus is, why it’s so hard to treat, and what options might support recovery. It includes transparent information about the limits of current research and offers practical, compassionate strategies patients can try or discuss with their care team.
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Huntington’s Disease and Speech Therapy

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout helps individuals and families understand how speech-language pathologists can support communication, cognition, and swallowing across all stages of Huntington’s Disease. Use it in therapy to explain your role, guide care planning, and empower patient choice.
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The Masako Maneuver: Compensatory Strategy or Exercise? A Deep Dive

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This deep dive into the Masako maneuver explores its origins, evolving role in dysphagia therapy, and what the evidence really says. It’s designed to help SLPs make informed, nuanced decisions in a field where our options are limited, but our impact is real.
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Wheelchair-Friendly Clothing

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This guide helps therapists support clients in finding clothing that works for life in a wheelchair, whether through adaptive brands or practical modifications to regular clothes. It’s a resource you can share to spark conversations about comfort, autonomy, and dressing with dignity.
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