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Free Clinical Resources

Practical, Body-First Tools for Pediatric Professionals

Whether you're looking for printable handouts, clinical guides, checklists, or professional toolkits, these free resources are designed to help you strengthen clinical reasoning and support meaningful participation.

Developed by Dr. Cara Koscinski and the Executive Function Institute, each resource reflects a body-first, participation-focused, neurodiversity-affirming approach to pediatric practice.

Who Do the Resources Support?

Therapists

Evidence-informed tools, visuals, and structured activities that support clinical reasoning and intervention for children developing executive function and body awareness skills.

Educators

Practical classroom strategies and visual supports that help students strengthen organization, regulation, planning, and participation during everyday classroom routines.

Families

Simple guides and activities that help children practice planning, emotional regulation, and body awareness in supportive and meaningful ways at home.

Featured Free Resource

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back-to-School Clinical Toolkit™

 

A Body-First Guide to Supporting Participation, Regulation, and Executive Function

FREE

A practical toolkit filled with classroom strategies, observation tools, environmental supports, and participation-focused ideas for therapists and educators.

Browse Free Resources

🌳 Interoception

From Roots to Fruit™

  • Toileting Guide

  • Interoception Quick Reference (coming soon)

  • Clinical Observation Checklist (coming soon)

🚂 Executive Function

📚 Documentation & Clinical Reasoning

  • Present Level Checklist (coming soon)

  • SMART Goal Writing Guide (coming soon)

  • Documentation Language Guide (coming soon)

  • Clinical Observation Forms (coming soon)

 

👨‍👩‍👧 Families

  • Helping Children Understand Their Bodies (coming soon)

  • Home Executive Function Supports (coming soon)

Why Our Resources Are Different

At the Executive Function Institute™, we believe meaningful participation begins with understanding the whole child, not simply changing behavior.

 

Every resource is designed to help clinicians and educators:

✔ Strengthen clinical reasoning

✔ Understand participation through a body-first lens

✔ Identify strengths before barriers

✔ Support executive function access

✔ Build meaningful participation across everyday life

Looking for More?

If you've found these resources helpful, explore our professional clinical systems and assessments for more in-depth learning.

🌳 From Roots to Fruit™ Clinical System

Learn body-first clinical reasoning through four integrated professional handbooks.

🚂 EF Assessment

Executive Function Express™ Access Profiler

Evaluate executive function access across 12 domains to guide meaningful intervention planning.

🚂 Executive Function Treatment Builder Program

From observation to full treatment planning. All online and at your fingertips.

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