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Online Dating with a Disability

February 1, 2026 by Megan Berg.

This resource provides a dual-purpose framework for therapists to facilitate dignified conversations about online dating with adults with disabilities. It balances clinical guidance on supporting autonomy without overstepping, paired with a practical planning tool to help clients navigate identity, boundaries, and safety in the digital dating world.

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Apraxia of Speech: Interest-Based Practice Toolkit

October 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.

An interest-based practice menu for apraxia of speech that turns motor-learning principles into meaningful, high-rep therapy. Use the ready prompts (sports, research, art/music) to co-create targets, move from blocked to random practice, fade feedback, and carry gains into real-life tasks.

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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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Collaborative IEP Meetings: A Multidisciplinary Guide for Meaningful Parent Engagement

April 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.

This is a practical resource designed for therapists to share with parents and colleagues, helping to foster a more family-centered, inclusive approach to IEP meetings. Packed with actionable strategies, checklists, and parent advocacy tools, this guide empowers teams to create meetings where parents feel heard, valued, and truly part of the decision-making process.

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Facial Nerves and Muscles

October 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This handout provides a general explanation for patients and family members to understand and visualize the nerves and muscles involved in facial sensations and movements.

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Communication Strategies for Acquired Apraxia of Speech

September 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This handout highlights communication strategies for people with apraxia of speech and their communication partners.

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Script Training Treatment Guidance and Ideas

August 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This handout provides a step-by-step guide on how to use script training to support communication for people with aphasia and/or apraxia of speech.

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The Case Against Nonspeech Oral Motor Exercises (NSOMEs) to Improve Speech Production

May 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

Dive into the evidence-base indicating lack of strong support for nonspeech oral motor exercises to address speech sound production for patients with dysarthria or apraxia of speech.

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Quick, Informal Assessment of Articulation and Intelligibility

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This resource provides ways to assess articulation and intelligibility through lists of mono- and multisyllabic words, consonant clusters in different positions of words, and stimulating natural speech with reading, questions, and describing a picture.

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Quick, Informal Assessment of Prosody

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.

Assessment of motor speech disorders can be lengthy as it should include obtaining case history, assessing a patient’s level of awareness, non-speech examination, speech production examination, as well as determining if there are comorbidities. This material provides a way to assess the characteristics of prosody.

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