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Navigating Identity, Mental Health, and Ableism in Chronic Illness

September 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource helps therapists initiate meaningful, person-centered conversations with clients navigating chronic illness, focusing on identity, emotional wellbeing, and the impact of ableism. Use it to support clients in mapping who they are beyond their diagnosis.
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Real-World Dysarthria Treatment: A Shift in Focus

August 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource helps you shift dysarthria therapy beyond drills by focusing on real-world communication, self-advocacy, and life participation. It includes therapy ideas, goal-writing guidance, and a patient handout that fosters supportive communication with partners like family, friends, and community members.
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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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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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Writing Meaningful Documentation That Reflects Skilled Therapy

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource helps you document in a way that clearly reflects clinical reasoning, adaptability, and person-centered care, without drowning in jargon. It includes examples, rewrite tips, and reflective tools to support skilled, meaningful therapy notes.
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The Masako Maneuver: Compensatory Strategy or Exercise? A Deep Dive

July 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This deep dive into the Masako maneuver explores its origins, evolving role in dysphagia therapy, and what the evidence really says. It’s designed to help SLPs make informed, nuanced decisions in a field where our options are limited, but our impact is real.
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Early Cancer Detection in Swallowing Evaluations

June 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource helps speech-language pathologists recognize subtle red flags for head and neck cancer during swallow evaluations. It includes anatomical visuals, nuanced signs by subsite, and clear guidance on when to refer to ENT.
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Tools for Creating and Customizing Social Stories

June 30, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource introduces a range of digital tools therapists can use to create personalized, engaging social stories for clients working on social communication skills. It includes platform overviews, usage tips, and visual examples, making it easy to find the right tool for different therapy goals.
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Beyond Parkinson’s: A Guide to Differentiating PD, PSP, MSA, and Related Disorders

May 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
Use this table to help clients and their care partners understand the differences between Parkinson’s disease (PD) and atypical parkinsonian syndromes like progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), multiple system atrophy (MSA), and corticobasal syndrome (CBS). Share it in therapy to support education, goal-setting, and collaboration for more tailored interventions.
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