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How to Get Audiobooks For Free For People with Disabilities (United States)

January 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
Empower your patients with free access to audiobooks, ebooks, and braille materials tailored to their needs. This resource provides step-by-step guidance for therapists to help patients set up and use two excellent services: the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) and OverDrive, ensuring ongoing support and accessibility for meaningful engagement.
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Visual Scanning: Food Labels

December 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource is designed to help individuals practice visual scanning skills in a supportive way, using realistic scenarios and label designs that mimic everyday shopping experiences. Whether someone is building these skills for the first time or reinforcing them after an injury, this activity aims to make food label reading a little easier—and maybe even a little fun!
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Returning to Reading: Adaptive Supports

April 30, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout discusses different types of strategies and resources you can use to help with improving your ability to read, whether it be a book or signs in your environment.
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Reading Comprehension Task with a News Article

January 5, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This activity is to target a person’s understanding of a news article and must be able to read at the paragraph level. A variety of questions can be asked in a yes/no format, with multiple choices, or open-ended.
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Reading Comprehension Pack (Fall Theme)

January 5, 2022 by Megan Berg.
These reading passages and questions provide an opportunity for your student to practice skills and strategies related to comprehension, such as listening for details, identifying the main idea, and predicting. 
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Reading Comprehension Sequencing Task

January 5, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This three-page task includes 4-step, 5-step, and 6-step written instructions to challenge patients’ reading comprehension skills.
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Quick Informal Assessment: Reading Comprehension

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This quick, informal assessment allows therapists to get a quick snapshot of single-word, sentence-level, and short and long paragraph level reading comprehension abilities. Does not require any additional materials to complete.
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