The Challenge of Pediatric OT

Colleen is a pediatric occupational therapist who knows firsthand what makes this field so rewarding—and so overwhelming. The wide scope of pediatric OT keeps the work dynamic and interesting, but it also leads to a never-ending hunt for quality resources. Oftentimes, therapists feel under-equipped to effectively address the huge variety of concerns that parents and caregivers come to them for as the expert.

Therapists shouldn’t have to reinvent the wheel just to do their jobs well. They need fast, reliable access to evidence-informed, ready-to-use tools—so they can focus on what really matters: helping kids thrive.

Why Existing Resources Fall Short

After years of creating her own resources and cobbling together materials from every corner of the internet, Colleen realized there had to be a better way to do things.

Yes, there are OT resources out there—Teachers Pay Teachers, The OT Toolbox, Tools to Grow, Your Therapy Source, and more. But finding what you need and keeping track of it all is still a time-consuming scavenger hunt.

Therapists spend so much valuable time sifting through blog articles with affiliate links, Instagram reels, YouTube videos, and random websites—when they could be more confident, prepared therapists, if only they had all the right resources in one place.

Even OT-specific sites often offer only a handful of worksheets focused on niche skills that provide enough activities for maybe one treatment session, when therapists really need enough treatment tools to address that area for many weekly sessions.

What Pediatric OTs Actually Need

So much of being a good therapist is having easy access to the resources you need. Providing this kind of support can accelerate a therapist's competence and confidence far more quickly than if each therapist has to piece together incomplete resources haphazardly over the years.

What pediatric OTs really need is one go-to digital home base with enough ready-to-use treatment ideas to fill countless sessions, all organized by goal type.

And here's the truth: you don’t know what you don’t know. New grads and therapists new to pediatrics often don’t realize the full scope of what pediatric OTs address in practice.

If only there was a pediatric OT-specific resource that provided all the activities, exercises, worksheets, videos, books, apps, and caregiver handouts, for both in-person and teletherapy, needed to target each niche area over many treatment sessions.

Introducing The OT Playbook

The OT Playbook is a resource library organized by goal area, with each one-time purchase "membership" containing slide decks full of no-prep, step-by-step intervention activities, printable worksheets, video models, book lists and read-alouds. They're packed with original treatment plans, as well as curated links to free materials and links to where to find helpful paid materials. It’s grounded in clinical experience and built from years of scouring the internet.

It’s a full suite of plug-and-play treatment materials covering everything from executive functioning to self-regulation, social skills, motor skills (fine, gross, visual, ocular), ADL skills, feeding, and more.

Why It Matters

Imagine being proactively prepared for every concern you're likely to face as a pediatric OT instead of reactively preparing by searching for resources and trying to remember what you did that one time.

While The OT Playbook includes many of its own unique resources, it also recognizes that a central part of the challenge is simply finding what you need. As such, it offers what no other site does: it brings together countless OT-relevant resources (worksheets, videos, activity ideas, free and paid resources) into one organized library of hyperlinks, categorized by niche goal type.

The OT Playbook also believes that OTs should be provided with all the materials they need to do their jobs to the best of their ability. That's why each one-time purchase membership includes a script for OTs to request reimbursement from their employer for the digital therapy resources.

When clinics invest in giving their therapists the tools they need, they don’t just improve outcomes for kids. They reduce burnout, revive morale, and boost retention. Clinics can provide therapists with that peace of mind and proactive preparation with this resource.

Welcome to The OT Playbook: The most comprehensive, organized library of pediatric OT resources on the internet.

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