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The Calendar Pivot: Reworking a Calendar Based on Voicemails

June 30, 2026 by Megan Berg.
This functional resource invites therapists and clients to work side-by-side to navigate the messy, realistic pivots of daily scheduling after a brain injury. Rather than a pass-fail test, it serves as a collaborative sandbox for identifying cognitive friction points and discovering the personalized strategies that help a client regain agency in their own life.
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Anxiety: The Hidden Barrier to Recovery

June 30, 2026 by Megan Berg.
This resource provides therapists in acute and inpatient rehabilitation settings with an evidence-based framework to address poststroke anxiety and depressive symptoms (P-SADS) as a physical barrier to neuroplasticity. Designed for collaborative patient and family education, it translates clinical research into person-centered strategies that connect emotional regulation directly to a survivor’s personal motivations and functional recovery goals.
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Aphasia-Friendly Play for Ages 4–7

June 30, 2026 by Megan Berg.
This aphasia-friendly card activity helps stroke survivors and young children connect through gestures, movement, play, and shared attention rather than relying on perfect speech. Therapists and family members can use the cards to support meaningful low-pressure interaction while modeling communication strategies for expressive and receptive aphasia.
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Intelligence and Cognition: A Guide for Family and Friends

June 30, 2026 by Megan Berg.
This resource provides a person-centered framework to help patients and families distinguish between stable intelligence and cognition following a neurological change. By framing therapy as a collaborative effort to bridge this gap, it empowers clinicians to address high-level goals while actively mitigating the risk of patient infantilization.
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A Guide to Responding to Confabulation

June 30, 2026 by Megan Berg.
This resource provides a practical framework for helping families move beyond fact-checking and toward emotional connection. It supports therapists in reframing confabulation as a neurological symptom rather than a behavioral issue.
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Signs of Self-Care in Kids With ADHD

June 30, 2026 by Megan Berg.
This handout helps therapists reframe “challenging” behaviors in kids with ADHD as meaningful attempts at self-regulation within demanding environments. It offers simple, practical language and response strategies that therapists can use to guide parents, teachers, and caregivers toward more supportive, effective interactions.
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Personalized Visual Map of Brain Injury Changes (For Kids)

June 30, 2026 by Megan Berg.
This child-friendly brain map helps you walk through how a brain injury may be affecting a child in a way that feels concrete, collaborative, and easy to understand. Use it to support shared insight, guide goal-setting, and help kids put words to what feels harder in their day-to-day life.
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Helping Kids Understand Their Body Cues Around Food

June 30, 2026 by Megan Berg.
This two-page resource provides a visual and language-based tool to help kids understand and communicate body cues like hunger and fullness during mealtimes. It supports the development of interoceptive awareness while guiding adults to respond in ways that respect the child’s cues and build trust in their own body.
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Navigating the Big World of Sensitive Kids

June 30, 2026 by Megan Berg.
A concise handout to help parents understand highly sensitive kids through the lens of regulation, sensory processing, and communication instead of just behavior alone. Use this resource to guide supportive conversations and offer simple, in-the-moment strategies that respect the child’s experience while building long-term skills.
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