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My Social Map: Understanding Relationships, Comfort, and Boundaries

April 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.

Help your clients navigate friendships and boundaries in a way that aligns with their unique perspectives and needs. This interactive worksheet guides autistic individuals and those with brain injuries through mapping their relationships, identifying comfort levels in social situations, and practicing boundary-setting strategies, giving therapists a practical tool for meaningful discussions.

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Naturalistic Language Interventions to Set Sessions Up For Success in Homes and in Clinics

July 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource helps to organize clinical spaces to support naturalistic language interventions in both clinic and home spaces.

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Tips for Supporting Peer Engagement for AAC Users

July 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.

Improving peer engagement for children using AAC is a vital goal in fostering social relationships among peers, validating communication efforts, and improving overall quality of life. This handout provides a synopsis of interventions as well as sample areas to target for clinicians and educators.

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Figure It Out Figurative Language and Idiom Practice Game

January 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.

This board game provides a quick and easy way to target idiom practice with either individuals or groups of clients.

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How We Feel: Emotions and Feelings Flashcards

October 31, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

These cards provide a quick, easy-to-use visual way to learn, generalize, and practice emotions and feelings for pre-literate or literate populations.

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Build Your Own Social Stories for Daily Living Activities

October 31, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

Use this interactive activity to work on building social scenarios for practice in therapy sessions and for generalization outside of therapy.

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Tips to Help Your Child with Joint Attention

June 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

Impairments with joint attention can have tremendous negative impacts on cognitive and social-communication skills. This handout provides information and techniques for clinicians and caregivers to use to help children with joint attention skills through various activities.

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Self-Advocacy Statements > Social Skills Worksheet for Neurodiverse Teens

March 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

Utilize this worksheet with older clients to promote self-advocacy skills instead of neurotypical behavior social skills training.

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Imaginative Inferencing Activity for Pre-literate and Literate

December 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource is an easy-to-use inferencing activity suited for both pre-literate and literate clients.

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Building Confidence to Improve Conversational Language Skills

December 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource provides information to help improve your child’s conversational language skills through building self-confidence.

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