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Medication Management: The Color Method for Low Vision

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryHealth Management and Self AdvocacyStrokeVision
This resource provides a streamlined, high-contrast framework for therapists to help clients with low vision regain autonomy and safety in their daily medical routines. By utilizing tactile neon bands and color-coded visual cues, clinicians can offer a practical, at-a-glance solution that bridges the gap between clinical prescription and independent home management.
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Understanding Listening Fatigue and Cognitive Load in Deaf/HOH Students

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PediatricSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage Development
This handout helps teachers, parents, and caregivers understand the hidden effort children with hearing loss experience when using hearing devices. It offers simple, practical ways to reduce listening demands, support energy levels, and create environments that work with the child’s capacity.
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Beyond Taking the Bite: Why Autonomy is the Goal of Feeding Therapy

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This resource provides therapists with a research-backed framework to help families shift from compliance-based feeding to a model centered on interoception and body autonomy. By bridging the gap between clinical theory and practical kitchen table boundaries, it empowers parents to trade the mealtime power struggle for a relationship built on trust and sensory safety.
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Flip the Script: From Feeding Pressure to Observation

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This resource provides therapists with a practical bridge between clinical autonomy theory and the high-pressure reality of the family dinner table. By offering declarative language swaps, it empowers parents to move from being food salespeople to neutral sensory observers, effectively lowering a child’s nervous system defenses.
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Exploring Food Aversion Through Play

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This resource provides therapists with a playful, sensory-based framework for desensitizing food aversions without the pressure of oral intake. It allows clinicians to guide families through low-stakes interaction and tactile exploration that honors a child’s boundaries.
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Low Vision Guide: Listening to Music

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AdultOTSLPStrokeVision
This resource provides therapists with a streamlined, high-contrast guide to help clients with low vision maintain independence through accessible music technology. It offers practical, jargon-free instructions on using voice commands and simplified interfaces to reduce the cognitive and visual load of digital navigation.
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Clinical Reference

AI Voice Banking with Eleven Labs: A Clinician Guide

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AdultSLPMotor Speech/Dysarthria/ApraxiaNervous System ConditionsProgressive Neurological ConditionsStrokeVoice
This guide helps therapists support clients in preserving or recreating their voice using ElevenLabs’ voice-AI technology. It includes step-by-step setup instructions, recording prompts, and practical options for using a cloned voice in everyday communication and AAC systems.
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Therapy Activity

Using AI to Review a Contract

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AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsBrain InjuryStroke
Support clients in understanding complex contracts by teaching them how to use AI as a tool for clarity, not replacement of legal advice. This activity builds executive functioning, self-advocacy, and real-world decision-making skills around high-stakes documents like managed Medicare plans.
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Books for the Brain Injury Journey

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Share this curated reading and listening list with people navigating life after brain injury and the family members supporting them. These books explore grief, resilience, identity, and meaning, offering stories and perspectives that can help spark reflection, conversation, and hope throughout the recovery journey.
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Basic Anatomy: Autonomic Pathway Anatomy

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AdultOTBrain InjuryNervous System ConditionsProgressive Neurological ConditionsSpinal Cord Injury
A clear visual guide to the autonomic nerve pathways that regulate heart rate, digestion, breathing, and other automatic body functions. Use this illustration to help clients understand how the brain and body communicate through the autonomic nervous system.
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Therapy Activity

Adapting When Plans Change: Flexible Thinking Practice

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
Practice flexible thinking through rule-switching tasks, category shifts, and everyday problem-solving scenarios. Use this activity to help people with brain injury explore how to adapt when routines change and generate practical alternative ideas for real-life situations.
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Cognitive Ergonomics: Supporting Your Brain Through Your Environment

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AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsBrain InjuryHome ModificationsStroke
This handout introduces the concept of cognitive ergonomics and shows how small environmental changes can support focus, memory, and decision-making. Use it to help clients identify practical ways to reduce cognitive load and create home routines that support clearer thinking.
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Reframing Progress with Feeding

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Help families recognize meaningful feeding progress beyond bites and food counts. This handout helps therapists shift the conversation toward reduced stress, increased tolerance, and growing curiosity around food.
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Why Adolescence is Developmentally Wired for Disorganization

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive Function
This resource reframes adolescent disorganization from a behavioral deficit to a natural byproduct of a brain optimized for exploration and identity formation. It provides therapists with a neuro-informed framework to help parents shift from frustrating power struggles toward a stance of developmental mentorship and supportive scaffolding.
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Therapy Activity

Barrier Matching Game: Fine Motor + Descriptive Language

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionFine MotorLanguage DevelopmentPediatric Brain Injury
A collaborative barrier game that encourages students to practice describing, listening, and problem-solving while matching picture halves they cannot see. Therapists can use this activity to target expressive language, comprehension, and communication repair while incorporating cutting, visual scanning, and turn-taking.
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Therapy Activity

Return to Work Series: Creating a Purchase Order from an Inventory List

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AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsBrain InjuryStroke
This return-to-work activity helps therapists guide clients through a realistic office task while focusing on strategy use, problem-solving, and workplace adaptation rather than correctness. Use it to collaboratively explore what supports, accommodations, or workflow changes make real-world job tasks more manageable after injury or illness.
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Therapy Activity

Dishwasher Manual Navigation Activity

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AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsBrain InjuryStroke
This real-world activity uses an actual appliance manual to help clients practice finding information when something isn’t working as expected. Use it in therapy to build flexible problem-solving, reading endurance, and confidence with everyday written materials without turning the task into a test.
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Therapy Activity

Voice Commands for Memory and Organization (iPhone and Android)

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
This resource empowers patients to offload cognitive tasks and manage health routines using the new conversational power of Gemini and Siri. It is designed as a practical tool for therapists to help clients build independence, reduce executive function fatigue, and bridge the gap between sessions with AI support.
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