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The “Time Budget” Challenge

May 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.

Help teens take control of their busy schedules with The Time Budget Challenge, a practical activity designed to build time management and planning skills. This resource guides students through organizing their weekly commitments, balancing school, extracurriculars, and downtime, so they can develop healthy habits for managing their workload independently.

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Routine & Transition Planning Sheets

April 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.

Help your clients build self-awareness and self-advocacy with this Routine & Transition Planning Sheet, a structured tool designed for autistic individuals, ADHD diagnoses, and brain injury survivors. This resource guides them in identifying challenging transitions, exploring personalized strategies, and creating a clear plan to communicate their needs to parents, teachers, and support teams.

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Create a Structured To Do List

March 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.

Help your clients turn overwhelming to-do lists into clear, actionable steps with this guided activity. By prioritizing tasks, breaking them down, and using the included daily planner sheet, they’ll gain a sense of control and accomplishment, one step at a time.

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Choosing a Homestay or Hotel for Vacation

September 30, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.

Practice implementation of aids/strategies to compensate for cognitive impairments with real-life activity determining which homestay or hotel best fits your wish list for your next vacation.

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Creating a Personalized Road Trip

January 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.

Rehearse executive function skills and strategies with a personalized road trip activity.

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Planning a Children’s Birthday Party on a Budget

November 30, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This birthday party planning activity will allow the patient to make personalized selections and calculate the items to stay under budget.

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Caring for Pets After Illness or Injury: A Therapy Worksheet

October 31, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

Turn pet care into a meaningful, multi-domain therapy opportunity. This interactive worksheet and activity set helps clients plan for daily and emergency pet needs while targeting cognitive, physical, and social skills in a fun, personalized way.

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Shopping Strategies for Executive Dysfunction

August 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This handout covers different strategies that can be used when shopping for individuals with executive functioning deficits.

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Cooking Strategies for Executive Dysfunction

July 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource covers different strategies to simplify and improve independence with cooking for individuals with executive functioning deficits.

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Organizing and Planning a Calendar: Volunteering and Family Vacation

June 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This scheduling task requires a person to use various executive function skills, including good initiation, visual scanning, divided visual attention, planning/organization, reading comprehension, written expression, and problem solving/reasoning.

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