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Sensory Tips / Tricks
A list of simple and (MOSTLY) free tips and tricks to practice for increasing sensory tolerances and decreasing sensitivities. Oral, Auditory, Tactile, Olfactory and Visual sensory ideas are all listed. This is by NO means an all-inclusive list, but I often wished I had a paper to grab for easy, quick ideas for my students and this is a compilation of my typical go-to strategies. Hopefully it can help you as well! Please remember this is intended for individual use only - if others are interest
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OT Parent Handout - Tactile Sensitivity: Dressing Strategies
This occupational therapy resource includes a parent and caregiver educational handout with strategies from an OT regarding increasing tolerance to dressing and clothing textures for children who have tactile sensitivity. The resource also includes a page with sensory strategies to perform prior to dressing in order to regulate the nervous system and decrease tactile sensitivity, which can lead to increased tolerance and comfort with dressing. PRINTABLES: click the following links to check out f
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Social Emotional Learning
Also included in: Sensory Processing Resources Bundle - OT
Kid's Water Tracker
Kid’s Water Tracker in minimal color, printer-friendly! This kid's water tracker sheet includes a fill-in-the-raindrop sheet for the appropriate age. Sheet 1: 4 raindrops for 4 cups of water a day (age appropriate for a 1-3-years-old) Sheet 2: 5 raindrops for 5 cups of water a day (age appropriate for a 4-8-years-old) Sheet 3: 8 raindrops for 8 cups of water a day (age appropriate for a 9 years old and up) This is perfect for any child that needs to track their fluid intake to decrease constipa
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Parent Input Form for Initial, Annual, and Reevaluation IEPs
This document is extremely useful and easy when preparing for an IEP meeting. This document has all the essential pieces so that you can go into an IEP meeting prepared and know any parent concerns ahead of time. This document is an editable PDF where the font size decreases no matter how much the parent writes so you always have the information you need without it being cut off.
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Food Chaining for Feeding Therapy Handout and Templates
This food chaining packet is a great guide for therapists to use with parents to support carryover of feeding therapy skills at home! It provides initial information on what food chaining is and how to implement it at home. It includes a template to come up with individualized food chains based on the child's preferred foods. There is also a sensory hierarchy visual to support increased food interactions.
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Mastering Growth and Focus: The Ultimate Educator Bundle
Mastering Growth and Focus: The Ultimate Educator BundleCombining two powerful guides, this bundle is the ultimate toolkit for educators seeking to foster both emotional growth and focused learning in their students. This comprehensive product features: Comprehensive Guide for Parents and Educators of Teenagers - Empower educators with the insights needed to better understand and support adolescents, covering topics such as emotional changes, communication strategies, and promoting social-emotio
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Serve and Return Infographic Handout
One page Infographic handout about the strategy called Serve and Return. Infographic includes the 5 steps necessary for successful implementation of the strategy that increases social engagement of children. This handout is great to share with parents, caregivers, daycare providers, or early childhood staff.
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Decrease Arousal Levels
Special education handout for decreasing arousal levels in each of the sensory systems. Handout provides example activities and classroom/home modifications.
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Visual Schedule Washing Hands
Need something to help increase your child's participation in their daily routine? Try this! This visual schedule can help your child to sequence and thoroughly wash their hands. Enjoy!
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Straw Digital Resource
The use of a straw can increase the ability of the child to engage in play independently or with peers. Straws are visually stimulating and promote visual tracking, oculomotor skills, eye-hand coordination, sensory processing, oral motor skills, and so many more therapeutic benefits. Check out these 10 ways to utilize a straw at home or in the clinic today to support your home program needs!
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Also included in: Equipment Bundle "Ways to Use" Digital Resource
AN IEP Quick Reference Guide for Parents (Spanish)
IEPs can be intimidating documents. This can increase when there is a language barrier between the case manager and the parents. This booklet gives some basic explanations for the different sections of the IEP in Spanish. I recommend printing this document 4 pages to a sheet, cutting, sorting, and stapling. It takes a bit of extra effort, but this makes the guide into a "pocket-guide" of sorts that may come off less intimidating. The whole idea is to make it easier for parents (and anyone else w
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Early Intervention Handout for Parents: Speech-Language Pathology
This Early Intervention handout was created to support parents/caregivers and increase the use of strategies outside of the therapy room. Within this handout are 7 tips to incorporate during play and during daily routines. Enjoy!!!
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** Occupational Therapy Explained: Informational Handout, What is OT? **
OTs are an integral part of the therapy team, focusing on increasing the participation of those we work with in their desired and required activities needed for living a fulfilling and independent life. Occupational therapy covers a wide range of skills - and that’s why we love it so much! This quick, one-page resource was created to be an easy explanation for caregivers, teachers and parents. Please note, as with all of our resources, this download does not substitute skilled medical interventi
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High Calorie Add Ins for Small Appetites Printable for Picky Eaters
This printable helps you boost calories for kids with small appetites without increasing portion size or pressure. It focuses on realistic, parent-friendly add-ins that work with foods your child already accepts. You’ll find simple, nutrient-dense calorie boosters like healthy fats, dairy and dairy-free options, and easy pairings you can use at meals or snacks. This resource is especially helpful for picky eaters, kids who fill up quickly, and children who struggle to meet energy needs. What’s i
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Caregiver/provider visual for picky eaters
This simplified visual provides support for caregivers, as they help their picky eaters increase their exploration of new foods. Using research-based feeding therapy theories, this visual is to be used with regular consultation and personalized guidance from a qualified SLP/OT provider.
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Self- Regulation Tools & Equipment
This is a list of common sensory items that support self-regulation. These tools and equipment increase awareness of your surroundings to support being mindful of your body. Support a child in finding their own sensory preferences and in turn ways to best regulate themselves based on how their body feels (interoception).
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Create a Sensory Diet
Children with sensory processing challenges can benefit from a sensory diet to promote emotional/sensory regulation and increase attention. Learning starts with attention, and attention comes with sensory regulation. This activity is a way for therapists to help parents learn more about their child's sensory dysregulation and how they can offer a sensory diet at home. The download includes a bank with a variety of sensory activities to make it easy for therapists to copy and paste to the table a
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Free Partner Strategies for AAC Core Vocabulary Handout
This 3 page handout provides some basic useful strategies partners (teachers, parents, and SLPs) can use to encourage and increase communication skills and aac use in students who are learning to communicate with aac.
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Attention & Focus Strategies - Parent Handout/Resource [Eng & Span.] OT
Here is a wonderful resource for parents & families for different strategies they can try with their child to increase focus and attention, such as environmental modifications, sensory tools, and movement breaks. This easy-to-read handout comes in English & Spanish! Once purchased, the start watermark is removed. Created by an occupational therapist, but beneficial to many! Great for OTs, PTs, teachers, SLPs and counselors!
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Classroom Community, School Psychology, Social Emotional Learning
Pelvic Floor Exercises and Poses
Pelvic Floor Cards in color! A fun visual of 16 different exercises to help strengthen your child’s pelvic floor to increase toileting success, internal awareness, and self-regulation skills. Each CARD includes:PictureExercise/Stretch NamePelvic Floor Exercises by Kristin Carr, OTD, OTR/L Kristin Carr, OTD, OTR/L, is the owner of All About Feeding, LLC at feeding-therapy.com and a contracting Occupational Therapist for Triage Staffing. She practices in various settings, such as long-term acut
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** Weight A Minute: Considerations for Using Weighted + Compression Items **
Deep pressure items have become a hot topic in recent years. With claims of alleviating anxiety, improving attention to task and increased regulation, the use of deep pressure stimulation seems like a given. But there's a whole lot more to it than clicking "add to cart" on a weighted blanket listing. We found ourselves often fielding questions from parents and teachers alike, which is how this resource came to be! Included in this download, you'll find: Overview of deep pressure and a simple ex
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Welcome To Occupational Therapy
An explanation for perhaps the most elusive member of the team! Many families are unsure about what occupational therapy is and why they were referred to OT and many teachers are not sure what to ask the OT about! This resource can be sent home by therapists or teachers in order to assist families or be a handout for educators themselves to increase understanding of OT thus improving communication among the members of the team! Black and white version as well as color!
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Therapeutic Brushing Guide: An Occupational Therapy Sensory Regulation Tool
Therapeutic Brushing is a practice sometimes recommended by occupational therapists for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to: To decrease tactile defensiveness (oversensitivity to touch or other textures)As an emotional regulation tool in times of frustration As a way to connect with your childTo use before bed as a way to provide calming inputWhile much of the research is anecdotal as to how effective this tool is for specific reasons, it can be considered one of the many sensor
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Today in Physical Therapy Report Card
Sometimes it can be hard to keep all of your parents updated on your sessions. This quick hand out can be useful to increase communication and provide activities for your parents to work on during the week with their children!
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