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Handout

Ataxic Dysarthria: Understanding and Communicating with Confidence

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AdultSLPMotor Speech/Dysarthria/Apraxia
This one-page handout helps patients understand ataxic dysarthria in clear, supportive language, including causes, communication strategies, and what to expect over time. It also offers practical tips for navigating real-world challenges (like being misunderstood as intoxicated) and includes guidance on how an SLP can help.
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Handout

Your Voice Is Telling a Bigger Story: Understanding Muscle Tension Dysphonia

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AdultSLPVoice
This resource invites patients to understand muscle tension dysphonia as more than just a voice issue. It’s a whole-body experience shaped by stress, tension, and daily habits. Use this handout to help patients reflect on their unique patterns and build awareness of how their voice connects to their overall wellbeing.
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Clinical Reference

Real-World Dysarthria Treatment: A Shift in Focus

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AdultSLPMotor Speech/Dysarthria/Apraxia
This resource helps you shift dysarthria therapy beyond drills by focusing on real-world communication, self-advocacy, and life participation. It includes therapy ideas, goal-writing guidance, and a patient handout that fosters supportive communication with partners like family, friends, and community members.
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Therapy Activity

Mealtime Communication Mat (adult paper-based AAC)

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AdultSLPAphasiaBrain InjuryStroke
This Mealtime Communication Mat supports non-speaking adults in expressing basic needs, preferences, and safety concerns during meals. Designed for quick, intuitive use, it’s a practical tool therapists can introduce to enhance autonomy and reduce frustration in clinical or caregiving settings.
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Handout

When More Help Is Needed: Navigating Long-Term Care Decisions After Brain Injury

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout supports families facing the difficult decision to move a person with brain injury into long-term care when insight is limited. It offers compassionate guidance, conversation strategies, and clinical context to help therapists navigate these high-stakes moments with clarity and care.
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Handout

Heat-Free Meal Recipes

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AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsBrain InjuryStroke
This resource offers 15 balanced, no-heat meal ideas for clients who can’t safely use a stove, microwave, or toaster oven. It’s a practical tool for supporting independence and nutrition in home health, neuro rehab, or cognitive rehab settings.
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Handout

Choosing the Right Walker

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AdultOTSeating and MobilityStroke
This handout helps patients understand the different types of walkers and choose the one that best fits their needs and abilities. Therapists can use it to support decision-making, set realistic expectations, and guide safe mobility planning.
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Handout

One-Handed Eating Made Easier

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AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsDysphagiaStroke
This one-page visual guide offers creative, real-world strategies to make one-handed eating easier and more independent. From adaptive tools to clever hacks, it’s designed to spark practical problem-solving during therapy sessions and beyond.
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Handout HEP

Regaining Hand Skills: Finger Isolation and In-Hand Movement

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AdultOTOrthopaedicsStroke
This handout offers patient-friendly activities to improve finger isolation and in-hand manipulation skills after injury or neurological change. Use it to support therapy sessions with clear explanations, practical exercises, and a compassionate tone that empowers patients to keep practicing at home.
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Therapy Activity

Co-Regulation Strategy Boards: Visual Tools for Emotional and Sensory Support

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage DevelopmentSensory
Help kids build self-awareness and regulation skills with visual strategy boards they co-create in therapy. This resource supports collaborative work across SLP and OT goals, integrating sensory tools and advocacy language that grows with the child.
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Clinical Reference

Writing Goals That Reference Play (Not Just Skills)

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage DevelopmentSensory
This resource helps therapists shift away from skill-only goals by showing how to write therapy goals that center meaningful, developmentally appropriate play. It includes play-based goal examples, a quick reference to types of play, and a worksheet to help reframe existing goals in a way that supports authentic engagement.
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Clinical Reference

Writing Life Participation Goals: Beyond the Impairment

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PediatricOTSLPAACApraxia of SpeechAutismExecutive FunctionFeeding and SwallowingFluencyLanguage DevelopmentPediatric Brain Injury
This resource helps therapists shift from impairment-driven goals to life participation goals that reflect what truly matters to the individual. It includes real-world goal examples and a worksheet to support writing goals that center autonomy, connection, and everyday engagement.
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Therapy Activity

Nutrition Label Sorting Activity

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryHealth Management and Self AdvocacyStroke
This adapted nutrition label sorting activity helps clients build visual scanning and comparison skills using real-life food labels. Designed to spark meaningful conversations rather than deliver right-or-wrong answers, it supports flexible, person-centered therapy across cognitive levels.
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Clinical Reference Handout

Montessori-Inspired Approaches to Dementia Care and Therapy

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AdultOTSLPDementia
This handout introduces families and care partners to Montessori-inspired principles that support dignity, autonomy, and engagement in dementia care. It’s a helpful tool for therapists to share during sessions to spark meaningful conversations and encourage person-centered approaches at home.
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Therapy Activity

Returning to Work: Preparing for and Practicing Job Interview Skills

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
This resource helps people with brain injuries prepare for the return to work by offering practical interview tips, self-advocacy scripts, and practice questions. Therapists can use it to guide discussions around transparency, readiness, and building confidence for the job search process.
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Handout

Mindful Eating Reflection Guide

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AdultOTADLs/IADLsDiabetes
This mindful eating reflection guide helps clients build a more supportive, curious relationship with food by focusing on sensory experience, emotional awareness, and self-compassion. It’s designed for therapists to use in sessions with individuals exploring eating habits as part of their daily routines, without promoting restrictive or judgmental approaches.
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Clinical Reference

Writing Meaningful Documentation That Reflects Skilled Therapy

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AdultSLPBrain InjuryDementiaDysphagiaProgressive Neurological ConditionsStroke
This resource helps you document in a way that clearly reflects clinical reasoning, adaptability, and person-centered care, without drowning in jargon. It includes examples, rewrite tips, and reflective tools to support skilled, meaningful therapy notes.
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Handout

Managing Trismus: What We Know, What We Don’t, and What You Can Try

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout helps patients understand what trismus is, why it’s so hard to treat, and what options might support recovery. It includes transparent information about the limits of current research and offers practical, compassionate strategies patients can try or discuss with their care team.
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Handout

Huntington’s Disease and Speech Therapy

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AdultSLPProgressive Neurological Conditions
This handout helps individuals and families understand how speech-language pathologists can support communication, cognition, and swallowing across all stages of Huntington’s Disease. Use it in therapy to explain your role, guide care planning, and empower patient choice.
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