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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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Visual Sequencing Board: Dressing Routine

November 30, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.

Help kids gain independence with dressing using this customizable visual sequencing board. With simple outlines or personalized photo options, therapists can break down routines into manageable steps that match each child’s needs.

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Making Dressing Easier: Clothing Solutions That Support Comfort, Dignity, and Caregiving

June 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.

This handout highlights adaptive clothing options that make dressing easier for individuals who are largely immobile or require significant assistance. Use it to support patients and families in choosing practical, dignity-preserving clothing that reduces physical strain and fosters greater independence in daily care.

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Cut and Paste: Dressing for Each Season

May 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.

Help kids strengthen fine motor skills, sequencing, and seasonal vocabulary with this engaging cut-and-paste dress-up activity. Perfect for speech and occupational therapy, this resource encourages discussion about clothing choices while building essential skills in a fun, hands-on way.

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One-Handed Shirt Dressing: A Visual Guide

October 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.

Use this visual guide to improve patient understanding of one-handed dressing techniques.

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Alternatives to Shoes with Laces

May 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This handout details several shoe alternatives to tennis shoes with laces.

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One-Handed Shoe Tying

July 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This handout provides simple pictures and instructions for a one-handed shoe tying strategy.

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One Handed Dressing Techniques for Hemiplegia

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This handout includes visual and written guides on one handed shoe tying, how to don a button down shirt, and use of a button hook to improve independence after hemiplegia.

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Getting Dressed: The Sock Aid

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.

A visual explanation of using a sock aid with graphics.

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Clothes and the Reacher

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This handout is designed for occupational therapists working with people who have lost reaching mobility and are using a reacher as an adaptive method for getting dressed. The resource outlines the different parts of a reacher and breaks down the steps of using it to put on bottoms and to take off socks.

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