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Dementia Across the Stages: A Guide for Families and Caregivers

Print Resource — US Letter — 5 pages
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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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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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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Preparing for Social Situations

Print Resource — US Letter — 8 pages
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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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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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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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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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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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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Airline Travel Tips for Wheelchair Users

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AdultOTHealth Management and Self AdvocacyProgressive Neurological ConditionsSeating and MobilityStroke
A practical, patient-ready guide therapists can use to help wheelchair users prepare for air travel with more confidence and fewer surprises. This handout supports meaningful conversations about safety, autonomy, and real-world planning before a flight.
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BRAIN Strategy Board

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
Use this BRAIN strategy board during any cognitive task to help identify breakdowns in real time and introduce supports that make the task more manageable. Designed for therapists to use collaboratively in session, it builds a shared language around strategy use while helping patients discover what works for them.
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One-Handed Ponytail Tricks

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AdultOTADLs/IADLsStroke
This resource includes practical, community-tested strategies to help clients regain independence in self-care and grooming after a loss of bilateral coordination. By offering a range of tips, it serves as a functional starting point for therapy sessions focused on adaptive ADL success.
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Basic Anatomy: Coup-contrecoup injury

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
A simple visual and explanation to help you show patients and families how a coup-contrecoup injury can affect the brain in two areas, not just where the head was hit. Use this resource to support clearer conversations about symptoms, build understanding, and reduce confusion during education moments in therapy.
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What Drains Me vs. What Helps Me

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AdultOTADLs/IADLsBrain InjuryChronic PainMental HealthProgressive Neurological ConditionsSpinal Cord InjuryStroke
This reflective worksheet helps individuals identify patterns in what drains their energy and what supports their focus mood and participation throughout the day. Use it to guide conversations around fatigue, balance, self awareness, pacing, and meaningful routine changes in a flexible person-centered way.
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The Calendar Pivot: Reworking a Calendar Based on Voicemails

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
This functional resource invites therapists and clients to work side-by-side to navigate the messy, realistic pivots of daily scheduling after a brain injury. Rather than a pass-fail test, it serves as a collaborative sandbox for identifying cognitive friction points and discovering the personalized strategies that help a client regain agency in their own life.
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Anxiety: The Hidden Barrier to Recovery

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AdultOTSLPMental HealthStroke
This resource provides therapists in acute and inpatient rehabilitation settings with an evidence-based framework to address poststroke anxiety and depressive symptoms (P-SADS) as a physical barrier to neuroplasticity. Designed for collaborative patient and family education, it translates clinical research into person-centered strategies that connect emotional regulation directly to a survivor’s personal motivations and functional recovery goals.
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Aphasia-Friendly Play for Ages 4–7

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AdultSLPAphasia
This aphasia-friendly card activity helps stroke survivors and young children connect through gestures, movement, play, and shared attention rather than relying on perfect speech. Therapists and family members can use the cards to support meaningful low-pressure interaction while modeling communication strategies for expressive and receptive aphasia.
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Intelligence and Cognition: A Guide for Family and Friends

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
This resource provides a person-centered framework to help patients and families distinguish between stable intelligence and cognition following a neurological change. By framing therapy as a collaborative effort to bridge this gap, it empowers clinicians to address high-level goals while actively mitigating the risk of patient infantilization.
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A Guide to Responding to Confabulation

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AdultOTSLPDementia
This resource provides a practical framework for helping families move beyond fact-checking and toward emotional connection. It supports therapists in reframing confabulation as a neurological symptom rather than a behavioral issue.
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Moving Forward: Navigating Neurogenic Bladder/Bowel Changes

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AdultOTBowel/Bladder
This resource is a dignity-first tool designed to help your clients move past the shame of neurogenic dysfunction by reframing accidents as neurological events and data points rather than personal failures. It shifts the clinical focus from mere symptom management to a collaborative, values-based approach that empowers clients to set goals centered on their own autonomy and lifestyle.
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