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Handling Toddler Aggression

December 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
This handout helps parents understand and respond to toddler aggression through calm boundary setting and supportive communication. Use it to coach families on preventing power struggles, teaching emotional regulation, and fostering connection, especially for children with limited speech or developmental differences.
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Helping Kids Feel Ready: The Power of Priming

December 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
This one-page parent handout introduces the concept of priming, which helps kids anticipate what’s coming next through stories, videos, or conversation. Use this to support families who often feel caught off guard by their child’s big reactions in new situations.
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What Kids Learn When They’re Bored

December 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
This handout helps parents understand the developmental value of boredom during everyday moments like waiting in line or riding in the car. It offers gentle language you can use to reframe screen-free time as an opportunity for kids to build self-regulation, creativity, and curiosity.
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Three Games for Movement, Language, and Connection

November 30, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
This parent handout offers three simple, low-prep games that build language, movement, and connection without requiring special toys. Use it in therapy to give parents practical, repeatable play ideas they can try at home right away.
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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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Helping Your Child with Articulation Goals at Home

June 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout helps parents support articulation goals at home without turning into speech therapists. It offers empowering language, practical modeling tips, and low-pressure carry-over ideas, all grounded in emotional support and confidence-building.
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Building Confidence in Kids: The Power of Letting Them Struggle

May 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
Help parents build their child’s confidence by supporting them through struggle instead of rescuing them. This handout provides practical strategies and scripts to help parents navigate those key moments when learning is hard, fostering resilience and independence in kids with disabilities.
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What to Expect in Play-Based Therapy

January 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
Help parents understand the principles of play-based therapy and how it supports their child’s development. This resource provides therapists with clear, parent-friendly explanations to share, making the therapy process approachable and meaningful.
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Understanding and Supporting Slow-to-Warm-Up Kids

January 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout helps parents understand and support “slow-to-warm-up” kids, celebrating their thoughtful and observant nature rather than trying to change it. Perfect for therapists to share, it includes practical strategies for fostering confidence and connection at the child’s own pace.
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Smooth Transitions: Helping Kids Move from One Thing to the Next

January 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource equips parents with practical strategies to help kids transition smoothly between activities, reducing stress for both parent and child. Perfect for therapists to share in therapy, it includes actionable tips, sample scripts, and a set of cut-out visual aids to support young children through transitions.
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