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Choosing the Right Walker

August 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout helps patients understand the different types of walkers and choose the one that best fits their needs and abilities. Therapists can use it to support decision-making, set realistic expectations, and guide safe mobility planning.
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One-Handed Eating Made Easier

August 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This one-page visual guide offers creative, real-world strategies to make one-handed eating easier and more independent. From adaptive tools to clever hacks, it’s designed to spark practical problem-solving during therapy sessions and beyond.
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Regaining Hand Skills: Finger Isolation and In-Hand Movement

August 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout offers patient-friendly activities to improve finger isolation and in-hand manipulation skills after injury or neurological change. Use it to support therapy sessions with clear explanations, practical exercises, and a compassionate tone that empowers patients to keep practicing at home.
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Writing Goals That Reference Play (Not Just Skills)

August 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource helps therapists shift away from skill-only goals by showing how to write therapy goals that center meaningful, developmentally appropriate play. It includes play-based goal examples, a quick reference to types of play, and a worksheet to help reframe existing goals in a way that supports authentic engagement.
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Writing Life Participation Goals: Beyond the Impairment

August 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource helps therapists shift from impairment-driven goals to life participation goals that reflect what truly matters to the individual. It includes real-world goal examples and a worksheet to support writing goals that center autonomy, connection, and everyday engagement.
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Nutrition Label Sorting Activity

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This adapted nutrition label sorting activity helps clients build visual scanning and comparison skills using real-life food labels. Designed to spark meaningful conversations rather than deliver right-or-wrong answers, it supports flexible, person-centered therapy across cognitive levels.
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Montessori-Inspired Approaches to Dementia Care and Therapy

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout introduces families and care partners to Montessori-inspired principles that support dignity, autonomy, and engagement in dementia care. It’s a helpful tool for therapists to share during sessions to spark meaningful conversations and encourage person-centered approaches at home.
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Returning to Work: Preparing for and Practicing Job Interview Skills

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource helps people with brain injuries prepare for the return to work by offering practical interview tips, self-advocacy scripts, and practice questions. Therapists can use it to guide discussions around transparency, readiness, and building confidence for the job search process.
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Mindful Eating Reflection Guide

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This mindful eating reflection guide helps clients build a more supportive, curious relationship with food by focusing on sensory experience, emotional awareness, and self-compassion. It’s designed for therapists to use in sessions with individuals exploring eating habits as part of their daily routines, without promoting restrictive or judgmental approaches.
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