The OT Toolbox

One tool we can use in occupational therapy is an eco map. This visual graphic organizer is a way to explore relationships that can impact our clients’ functional performance of occupational therapy. Relationships influence nearly every aspect of daily life. The people around us can support our success, create opportunities for participation, provide emotional encouragement, ...

In this blog post, we are talking all about a nervous system reset, using a simple printable reset menu we’ve created…much like picking a meal, you can pick regulation strategies that help to calm your body in everyday situations. What’s A Nervous System Reset? Our nervous system is constantly taking in information from the environment. ...

This Making Friends Worksheet was designed to support social emotional learning and executive functioning skills, for use in therapy or at home. We have other friendship activities on our website that you’ll also want to check out. Helping children develop friendship skills is an important part of supporting participation in school, community, and daily life. ...

Helping children recognize stress and develop healthy coping strategies is an important part of supporting emotional regulation and participation in daily activities. This free stress bucket worksheet helps kids identify stressors, notice body signals, reflect on emotional responses, and build personalized coping tools that support regulation across home, school, and communit...

This is an online version of our email Lunch and Learn newsletter all about eye movement. Eye movement skills play a major role in reading, writing, attention, classroom participation, and play. These are the functional tasks we target as goal areas in occupational therapy. When children struggle to keep their place while reading, skip words, ...