On The Other Hand Therapy, Columbus, OH (2025)

11/26/2025

Exploring upper limb difference mittens and gloves Part 2! ❄️

Excited to show you mimiTENS mitten options and how they work for our community ❄️🧤

Wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving 🍂

11/26/2025

Follow up from my recent post about mitten and glove options for upper limb differences 🧤❄️!

Stay tuned for more info about mittens, adaptive stretchy knit gloves, and home made "mitts" 🩷

Note: due to overwhelming demand, Knit for a unique fit! ™️has paused new mitten requests, but don't hesitate to check if there's a knitting group in the community where you live
Stay tuned for more info about mittens, adaptive stretchy knit gloves, and home made "mitts"

Feel free to share your or your child's favorites below 👇

11/19/2025

Customized mitten options for upper limb differences 🧤

It's getting cold where I live. It's mitten weather!

Growing up with a partial hand, I never had mittens or gloves that fit, felt good, and actually stayed on — adaptive options basically didn’t exist.

So in middle school (yep! 🤦🏻‍♀️) I stuffed cotton balls into the empty glove fingers so they wouldn’t flop around. It helped … but also made my “fingers” look weirdly stiff and straight. Not ideal, especially when a classmate found them and was super confused 😂

I’m so grateful for the creative people who have helped expand adaptive winter gear for our community:

🩷 Rena Rosen of Knit for a unique fit! ™️ for creating a movement of kindness connecting knitters to people with upper limb differences to create hand crafted personalized mittens

🩷 Anna-Maria Mountfort of mimiTENS for designing beautiful adaptive mittens and supporting the limb difference community through engagement + donations

🩷 Joselyn for sharing her video of adapting stretchy knit gloves for her hand

🩷 Mandy Pursely of Be the Spark Cosplay for sewing and giving out hundreds of custom mitts at Helping Hands Foundation Winter Outings (her photo is on slide 4!)

Swipe through for four great options at different price points for children and adults with partial hands and partial arms.

Have another favorite? Drop it in the comments so families can find even more solutions 🩵

Clinicians, please share these options with your families!

Huge thank yous to adaptive tech intern Kamsi, marketing intern Amanda, and and .greentree for helping with this post!

Lucky Fin Project Helping Hands (Symbrachydactyly) Hands4OT Reach Charity UK LimbBo Foundation - Official Limb Difference Community Page

11/12/2025

After presenting a poster at the American Occupational Therapy Association ( ) conference earlier this year with colleagues Jerelyne Idica, Amber Jenkins, and Sarah Tuberty — three incredible occupational therapists who also have upper limb differences — it was a privilege to bring our work home to my state OT conference.

Sharing this research locally opened new doors for collaboration and sparked meaningful conversations about how we can better support people with upper limb differences across the lifespan.

What struck me most was how many practitioners showed interest in understanding the types of issues that individuals with congenital and acquired upper limb differences experience. These conversations reminded me that national awareness only matters when it also reaches our local clinics, schools, and communities.

One of the most thought-provoking exchanges I had was with a fellow OT practitioner about access to school-based services for children with orthopedic impairments (OI), like those with upper limb differences. That discussion deserves its own post (stay tuned!).

Every time this poster is shared, new connections are made — and that’s exactly how meaningful change begins. 🩵

Many thanks to the families who shared photos of their children for our poster:
🩷 Angela Platt
🩷 Elaina Simeona
🩷 Lycia4cuteness

Our presentation team! .and.airplanes

10/09/2025

We’re so excited to introduce our Fall 2025 Intern Team! 🌟

This semester, 12 talented undergraduate students from 8 states are joining On The Other Hand Therapy to create content on pediatric occupational therapy and upper limb differences

6 content teams will focus on these important topics:
🩷 Assistive Devices & Technology
🩷 Early Childhood
🩷 Hand Therapy
🩷 Overuse Syndrome
🩷 Pediatric Occupational Therapy
🩷 Website Design & Marketing

I've previously mentored 150 undergrad interns in my private practice and Preschool Motor Group internships. But this is the first time that the focus will be on supporting upper limb differences — words cannot express my gratitude! 💖

Our goal is to partner with families navigating upper limb difference by sharing information and resources and answering questions 💡

We can’t wait for you to get to know them and follow along with their work this fall! 🩵

Many thanks to social media and marketing intern Amanda for this first post! 👏

07/15/2025

I'm so excited to head to Lucky Fin Project Weekend in Troy, Michigan, July 18-20! 🎉

Each year at LFP weekend, I bring tools that help children and adults with upper limb differences access the world more comfortably

This year’s setup includes “try before you buy” items:

🩷 A unique “typing bar”: children and adults can explore various kinds of keyboards, different key layouts, and ergonomic mice and trackballs 💻⌨️🖱️

🩷 EaZyHold silicone straps: these enable the limb different side(s) to grasp everyday tools, like spoons, hairbrushes, jump ropes, or toothbrushes 🥄🪥

If you’re attending, come say hi and get my FREE LFP-exclusive handout bundle of OT tips and strategies!

Not attending? You can still order EaZyHold straps 15% off (use code ontheotherhand15) at eazyhold.com 🩷

Note: as an EazyHold affiliate, I receive a small commission on sales

07/02/2025

I haven’t shared on my page that my mom passed away recently. It’s been a tender and complicated time, full of love, grief, and reflection.

This letter poured out of me as I processed what it was like growing up with a visible difference in a time when we didn’t have the words, or maybe the space, to talk openly about pain — both children’s and parents’.

One of the biggest realizations of my adult years is that my mom both loved me fiercely and also understandably felt pain when I struggled with my upper limb difference. In response, I learned to withhold sharing anything painful for fear of hurting her. I wish I’d had the tools to tell her all of this.

A quick note that I am a huge fan of talk therapy! And, at the same time, I recognize that it works best as part of a holistic approach.

I am so grateful that we are living in a time when families have more support and connections within the limb difference community. I’m sharing this now in case it helps someone else have a different perspective or feel less alone with their own story. 💔

06/26/2025

🩷 Hi! A lot of people have joined recently, so I want to reintroduce myself.

🩷 I’m Laura Faye Clubok, an adult with a congenital hand difference, a pediatric occupational therapist (OT) with 25+ years of experience, and a mom to two grown children.

🩷 My goal: to offer realistic, empathetic tools for raising children with limb differences, grounded in lived experience and professional expertise.

🩷 I’m currently pursuing a post-professional OT doctorate to develop a prevention program to reduce overuse syndrome in children and teens with limb differences.

🩷 I’ve also presented nationally, co-led professional groups, and supported countless families through OT, workshops, and community events.

🩷 I turned out well, but I also faced some challenges that could have been prevented. Now I’m here to offer families what I wish my parents had: evidence-based supports, tools, and trusted guidance.

Helping Hands Foundation

05/08/2025

Mother's Day letter to my mom 🩷

I wrote this letter to express empathy for all my mother went through raising a child with a hand difference — and to thank her for all the support and love she gave me over the years.

I sent the letter to my mother last year, but last week I was able to share it with her in person 😭

For many years, I struggled to find language for things I felt and experienced as a child and later adult with a congenital upper limb difference. So much just wasn’t talked about back then — not in medical settings, not in schools, and certainly not in everyday conversations.

🥂 To my mom and to the many mothers supporting children with limb differences — I know sometimes your labor goes unseen. Thank you for all you do and provide: your boundless love, fierce advocacy, creative problem-solving, and unwavering support. 💓

💭 Adults with limb differences, have you written to your mother — even if you didn't share it? I found the process offered clarity, healing, and space to explore what I wish she knew.

Please feel free to share this post (keeping original formatting and attribution).

You can also find this letter and the first letter in this series, "Parent letter to a child with a limb difference," here: https://ontheotherhand.org/category/limb-difference/writings/.

Thank you to the organizations & individuals spreading limb difference awareness and community support 🩷

And wishing all moms Happy Mother's Day!💐

To see more of this content, follow and visit ontheotherhand.org.

Lucky Fin Project
Moxie Adaptive
LimbBo Foundation - Official Limb Difference Community Page
Limb Kind Foundation

04/29/2025

Celebrating Limb Loss & Limb Difference Awareness Month (LLLDAM) and OT Month! 🩷💙

As we reach the end of LLLDAM & OT month, I’m excited to highlight some of the most popular support, resources, and free tools available on my website — designed for families and therapists who care deeply about helping children with limb differences thrive.

At ontheotherhand.org, you’ll find:

☑️ tips for different life stages
☑️ downloadable handouts
☑️ practical ideas for home or therapy

Some resources are just for upper limb differences, while others support both upper and lower — there’s something for everyone.

Check it out and let me know which resource feels most helpful to you right now. 💡

And please tag a friend who’d love to see this information, too!

Lucky Fin Project Helping Hands (Symbrachydactyly) Helping Hands Foundation Parenting Children With Limb Differences LimbBo Foundation - Official Limb Difference Community Page Hands4OT

04/21/2025

PMG Final Recap 🎉 53 preschoolers, 23 college interns, so many great memories!

So proud of the amazing and hard working Preschool Motor Group (PMG) team and all the preschoolers we had the joy of working with this winter! 🌟

Watching the 23 dedicated interns grow in confidence, skill, and heart over the semester has been such a gift. Swipe through to read about their experiences! 🩷

Thank you to the incredible preschool staff and all 53 fabulous preschoolers for making this group so special 👏

Also, many thanks to the Leadership Corps who, besides all of their other behind-the-scenes jobs, helped take photos to document the preschoolers’ skill development: Amanda, Mackenzie, Nadia, and Olivia! Special thanks to Nadia for creating the IS post every week! 📸 💻🔥

04/11/2025

Still riding the high from AOTA Inspire 2025 in Philly! 🎉

Presenting a poster with Amber Jenkins, Sarah Tuberty, and Jerelyne Idica — three incredible OTs with upper limb differences — was an actual dream come true

✨ Before I met Sarah (the first OT I ever knew with a limb difference!) in 2019, I didn’t even know others like me were out there in the field. Since then, so much has happened!

✨ At Hands to Love’s 2023 Hand Camp, Jerelyne and I dreamed up the goal of presenting at AOTA

✨ A month later, after meeting through the Lucky Fin Project, Amber and I started the Practitioner Group for OTs with Upper Limb Differences — now nearly 30 members!

✨ And this year at the American Occupational Therapy Association's yearly conference, AOTA Inspire, we met or found out about four more OT practitioners and students with upper limb differences!

I’m so proud, grateful, and excited for what’s ahead. Representation matters, and we’re just getting started

Swipe to see our poster + access our handouts and references through the link in bio!

Many thanks to the families who shared photos of their children for our poster:
🩷 Angela Platt
🩷 Elaina Owen Simeona
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Lucky Fin Project

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