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Handout

Adaptive Cleaning Tools

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AdultOTADLs/IADLsArthritisBalance/Vestibular/FallsBrain InjuryChronic PainHome ModificationsNervous System ConditionsOrthopaedicsProgressive Neurological ConditionsSpinal Cord InjuryStroke
Help patients identify cleaning tools and strategies that can reduce physical effort, conserve energy, and make household tasks more manageable. This handout is designed for individuals with fatigue, pain, limited mobility, balance challenges, or reduced strength who want to maintain participation in home cleaning activities.
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Eval Tool

Swallowing Support Plan (IDDSI)

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AdultSLPDysphagia
Help interdisciplinary teams stay on the same page with a clear, organized summary of a patient’s current eating and drinking plan, including IDDSI levels, mealtime supports, and preferred swallowing strategies. Designed to support collaboration across nursing, dietary, rehabilitation, and medical teams while keeping the patient’s goals and priorities at the center of care.
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Eval Tool

Neurogenic Dysfluency: Communication Strategies & Treatment Planning

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AdultSLPBrain InjuryMotor Speech/Dysarthria/ApraxiaProgressive Neurological ConditionsStroke
This tool helps adults identify communication situations that matter most, explore factors that affect fluency, and reflect on strategies that help, don’t help, or may be worth trying. Use this collaborative worksheet to guide treatment planning, support self-advocacy, and focus therapy on the communication goals that are most meaningful to the individual.
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Handout

Epiglottic Inversion: What It Means for Swallowing

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AdultSLPDysphagia
Help patients understand what epiglottic inversion is, why it matters for swallowing safety, and what it may mean when a swallow study shows reduced, incomplete, or absent inversion. This handout explains the relationship between epiglottic movement and swallowing function in clear, patient-friendly language, making it easier to discuss findings and treatment recommendations during dysphagia therapy.
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Handout

Speech, Voice, and Swallowing Changes After Carotid Endarterectomy

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AdultSLPDysphagiaMotor Speech/Dysarthria/ApraxiaVoice
Help patients understand why carotid endarterectomy can sometimes lead to changes in voice, speech, or swallowing. This handout explains the role of nearby nerves, what recovery may look like, and how speech therapy can support communication and swallowing during the healing process.
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Therapy Activity

Friendship Check-In: Listening to Yourself and Noticing Patterns

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PediatricOTSLPAutismExecutive FunctionLanguage Development
Help middle school and teen clients reflect on their friendships through a neurodiversity-affirming lens that emphasizes self-awareness, patterns, and relationship balance rather than rigid social rules. This resource guides discussions about how relationships feel, how effort is shared over time, and how to recognize personal needs and boundaries in friendships.
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Therapy Activity

Workplace Success: Identifying Strengths, Supports, and Accommodations

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionSensory
Help teens preparing for work identify their strengths, recognize potential workplace challenges, and explore accommodations that support success on the job. This resource guides self-advocacy conversations by helping teens connect their strengths, support needs, and workplace goals, while practicing how to discuss accommodations with supervisors in a strengths-based, professional manner.
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Handout

Preserving Choice, Dignity, and Connection

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This resource supports choice, dignity, and meaningful participation for children with tracheostomies and ventilators by highlighting concrete ways to preserve communication, connection, play, identity, and autonomy during medical care. Designed to be shared with families, caregivers, and interdisciplinary team members, it serves as a practical reminder to see the child beyond their medical equipment and incorporate their preferences into everyday interactions.
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Handout

My Swallow Study

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Prepare children and families for a modified barium swallow study with this visual social story. Using simple language and step-by-step illustrations, this handout helps reduce uncertainty, support participation, and introduce what to expect before, during, and after the assessment.
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Therapy Activity

Brain Injury Article Club: Planning, Attention, and Mental Overload After Brain Injury

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This discussion-based resource uses a first-person article about planning and organization after brain injury to help participants reflect on executive functioning changes through lived experience rather than clinical terminology. Therapists can use the accompanying discussion guide to facilitate supportive, emotionally validating group conversations focused on overwhelm, mental fatigue, identity changes, and real-world coping strategies.
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Handout

Dementia Across the Stages: A Guide for Families and Caregivers

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AdultOTSLPDementia
This stage-based dementia guide helps families, friends, caregivers, and staff better understand how support needs may change across the progression of dementia. Therapists can use this resource to facilitate conversations around communication, daily care, behavior, safety, comfort, and preserving dignity and connection throughout changing stages of the disease.
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Handout

Wallenberg Syndrome

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AdultOTSLPProgressive Neurological ConditionsStroke
This patient-friendly handout explains common symptoms of Wallenberg Syndrome in clear, approachable language while highlighting how speech and occupational therapy can help. Therapists can use this resource to support education, reduce overwhelm after diagnosis, and guide conversations about recovery, safety, and daily function.
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Handout

Advocating for Anesthesia Preferences

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AdultOTSLPAgingDementiaProgressive Neurological ConditionsStroke
This handout helps you support informed, patient-centered conversations about cognitive risks related to surgery and anesthesia in individuals with baseline memory or thinking changes. You can use it to help patients and families understand perioperative brain health, prepare questions for the medical team, and recognize warning signs of delirium or cognitive changes after surgery.
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Therapy Activity

Preparing for Social Situations

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryCancerHealth Management and Self AdvocacyMental HealthMotor Speech/Dysarthria/ApraxiaProgressive Neurological ConditionsSpinal Cord InjuryStroke
This activity helps you guide individuals through planning for upcoming social and community situations by identifying potential challenges, exploring response options, and considering supports that may help participation feel more manageable. It promotes self-advocacy, flexible thinking, and participation-focused problem solving while helping clients prepare for activities and relationships that are meaningful to them.
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Handout

Vocal Fold Paralysis and Dysphagia

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AdultSLPDysphagia
Help patients understand how vocal fold paralysis can impact swallowing with clear visuals and accessible explanations of airway protection during swallowing. This handout explains how the epiglottis, vocal folds, and other swallowing structures work together to support swallowing safety and why dysphagia severity can vary from person to person.
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Handout

When Swallowing Goes Off Track

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AdultSLPDysphagia
Help patients and families better understand penetration, aspiration, and silent aspiration using accessible language and supportive visual explanations. This handout is designed to support conversations about swallowing safety, symptom awareness, and how speech therapy can help.
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Handout

The Right Hemisphere of the Brain

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Help patients, families, and staff better understand the often misunderstood effects of right hemisphere brain injury including changes in insight, social understanding, emotional processing, and judgment. This infographic-style handout gives therapists a compassionate and accessible way to explain why these injuries can lead to confusing behavioral and personality changes that are neurological in nature.
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Handout

Supporting Your Brain Through Cognitive Changes

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AdultOTSLPDementiaProgressive Neurological Conditions
This patient-friendly handout helps individuals and families understand early signs of mild cognitive changes while emphasizing realistic, evidence-informed ways to support brain health. Therapists can use this resource to guide supportive conversations about movement, sleep, social engagement, routines, vascular health, and other lifestyle factors without promoting fear or false promises.
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Handout Therapy Activity

Apple Notes Features That Support Memory

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AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsBrain InjuryHealth Management and Self AdvocacyProgressive Neurological ConditionsStroke
Help clients explore how the Apple Notes app can function as a real-world memory and organization support tool in everyday life. This resource introduces practical features like checklists, pinned notes, voice dictation, and search functions that can support recall, reduce cognitive load, and improve follow-through outside of therapy.
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Therapy Activity

Big Feelings in My Body

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PediatricOTSLPAutismExecutive FunctionLanguage DevelopmentSensory
Use this resource to help school-age children explore how shame and anxiety can show up in the body through sensory awareness, emotional language, and self-reflection. Use the visuals and discussion prompts to support interoception, emotional regulation, self-advocacy, and conversations about strategies that help children feel safer and more supported.
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