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How Alcohol Affects the Brain

November 30, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
This handout explains in simple terms how alcohol affects brain structures and thinking skills, using recent research to clear up confusion about “safe” drinking levels. Use it to guide discussions with patients about recovery, cognition, and practical choices around alcohol use.
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Broca’s Aphasia: The Basics

November 30, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
This handout gives patients and families a clear, one-page overview of Broca’s aphasia. Use it to support education, guide discussion, and reinforce communication strategies.
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How Often Is Best? Understanding Therapy Frequency for Your Child

November 30, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
This handout helps parents understand therapy frequency models in a clear, collaborative way, emphasizing that therapists typically make recommendations while parents’ insights shape the plan. Use it to guide conversations about scheduling and empower families to ask questions and feel confident in the decision-making process.
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Three Games for Movement, Language, and Connection

November 30, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
This parent handout offers three simple, low-prep games that build language, movement, and connection without requiring special toys. Use it in therapy to give parents practical, repeatable play ideas they can try at home right away.
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Play Without Pressure

October 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
A parent-friendly handout for families who find play tricky, covering why imaginative play matters, “follow-their-lead” basics, and age-banded quick-start ideas. Use it in session to model simple play coaching and send home as a one-pager with scripts, prompts, and low-pressure ways to build connection and language.
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Why Kids Need Boredom

October 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
This parent handout helps therapists reframe “I’m bored” as practice time for planning, flexible thinking, and follow-through. It offers 20 fun, connection-building ideas kids can start on their own (letters, mini museums, recipe cards, window galleries) plus quick coaching tips so caregivers can support without rescuing.
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Texture Transition: Choose-Your-Own Adventure

October 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
Use this flexible, parent-friendly handout to help families navigate texture transitions from smooths to soft finger foods without a rigid sequence. This resource supports shared decision-making, emphasizes regulation and safety, and helps families pair exploration with familiar, satiating foods.
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Habit Stacking Worksheet

October 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
Use this one-page, interactive worksheet to teach habit-stacking in plain language and help people with ADHD or brain injury link a tiny action to a routine they already do. Clear examples, fill-in prompts, and a 7-day tracker guide you and your client to place tools where the habit happens, plan for bumps, and build consistent follow-through.
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Phones at School: Holding Tensions and Finding Solutions

October 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
Use this one-page handout (inspired by Jonathan Haidt) to start a calm, evidence-aware conversation about phones, attention, and school. It explains executive function in plain language, acknowledges real-world tensions, and offers cross-stakeholder questions you can use in session, IEP meetings, or parent nights.
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After the Fire: How the Brain Rebuilds Paths

October 31, 2025 by Celia Easton Koehler.
This one-page handout uses a forest-fire metaphor to explain neuroplasticity after stroke or brain injury, including what’s lost, what’s protected, and how new routes form (blaze, smoke, scar, new growth, new trails, weeds, distant trees). Use it in-session to set expectations, coach clients on why meaningful practice matters, and redirect maladaptive habits toward efficient, therapy-shaped pathways.
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