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Handout

Visual Neglect (Hemispatial Inattention) vs. Visual Field Cut (Homonymous Hemianopsia)

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryVision
This handout explains the difference between visual neglect and visual field cut. It provides information about how they are different and ways to distinguish them. There are also some suggestions for treatment. Recommended for patients and their family to understand the difference between these two similar conditions with divergent treatment recommendations.
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Therapy Material

Visual Perceptual Skills

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryVision
This handout breaks down the different types of visual perceptual skills and provides examples of potential functional deficits that might present in individuals with visual perceptual dysfunction.
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Handout

Visual Aids for Toe-Touch Weight Bearing and Non-Weight Bearing (TTWB/NWB) Precautions

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryOrthopaedics
It is often difficult for a client to remember to follow weight bearing precautions after a fracture or surgery, especially if they have a memory impairment. This customizable clinical resource is a set of TTWB/NWB visual aids to use as a reminder for your clients and their caregivers. Use of a visual aid is a part of the delivery of skilled therapy services, and it can improve outcomes, safety, and carryover during healing.
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Therapy Material

Visual Closure Tasks

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryVision
Visual closure skills are important for how we perceive our environment. This activity provides three methods for addressing visual closure deficits by having the patient match partial parts of an image to a whole, as well as select the correct partial piece of an image given multiple choices.
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Handout

Vestibular Neuritis

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AdultOTBalance/Vestibular/Falls
Do you have a patient with vestibular neuritis? This document will help explain the diagnosis and detail what to expect. The document is helpful for patients, caregivers, and clinicians.
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Therapy Material

Verbal Reasoning and Problem Solving Task

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AdultSLPAphasiaBrain Injury
For patients working on addressing verbal reasoning skills, this structured therapy task includes verbal prompts to optimize executive functioning, auditory processing, and verbal expression skills.
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Handout

Vascular Claudication

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AdultCardiovascular DiseaseChronic PainDiabetes
Vascular claudication can cause intermittent pain in the leg when active. Knowing what vascular claudication is, what to expect, and potential treatment options is useful to people who suffer from this condition and for the clinicians who treat people with vascular claudication. This handout outlines what intermittent vascular claudication is, what to expect, and potential […]
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Therapy Material

Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST)

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AdultSLPAphasia
Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) has been shown to improve generalization to untrained words. This resource explains what VNeST is, who the best candidates are, and steps for completion including adjustments and cueing that can be provided. A template and an example list of target verbs are included.
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Therapy Material

Verbal Discussion: “What’s Going on in this Picture?”

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AdultSLPAphasia
The New York Times posts an intriguing photo without a caption every Monday to spark discussion. This activity guides a discussion by providing critical thinking questions for a person with aphasia to answer.
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Handout

Valsalva Maneuver

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AdultDysphagia
The valsalva maneuver can be used as an exercise for the treatment of dysphagia and is one step of the super-supraglottic swallow maneuver in which a person is voluntarily controlling airway closure to reduce the risk of aspiration while consuming food and/or liquid. This resource provides information regarding who should use this maneuver, the rationale, contraindications, and instructions to complete this maneuver.  
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Clinical Reference

Upper Extremity Neuropathies

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AdultOTNervous System Conditions
When a client has neuropathy, it is often up to clinicians to assess the presentation, refer to an MD for interdisciplinary collaboration, and educate caregivers about symptoms and expected outcomes in addition to performing interventions. This resource includes a comprehensive chart for clinicians outlining upper extremity neuropathies, diagnoses commonly associated with upper extremity neuropathy, and their presentations. Presented in alphabetical order for ease of use.
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Handout

Upper Extremity Preservation in Spinal Cord Injury

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AdultOTSpinal Cord Injury
This handout covers multiple strategies for preserving upper extremity function in individuals with spinal cord injury.
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Handout HEP

Urinary Incontinence Exercise Program

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AdultOTBowel/Bladder
This handout provides clear, simple instructions to improve strength and continence. Includes space for repetitions, hold times, frequency, precautions, and notes.
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Therapy Material

Using Maps for Language Recovery

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AdultSLPAphasiaBrain Injury
This utilizes maps for different functional language activities targeting verbal expression, auditory comprehension, reading comprehension, and written expression. Includes a basic map and a more advanced map to serve different cognitive levels.
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Handout

Using Smartphones to Stay Organized After a Brain Injury

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AdultSLPBrain Injury
This handout provides five suggestions for ways to use a smartphone to help with home, work, and community responsibilities.
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Eval Tool

Using the EAT-10

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AdultSLPDysphagia
Complete initial assessment and ongoing process of dysphagia therapy with this patient-reported outcome measure tool.
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Parkinson’s Disease and Movement

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AdultOT
Parkinson’s disease can affect life in so many ways. This handout focuses on the effect of Parkinson’s disease has on movement.
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Therapy Material

Unilateral Neglect Task: Matching Pictures to Movie Titles

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryVision
Features 9 pictures from classic movies with written movie titles. Cut out each box, place the pictures on the right side and the titles on the left. This task is designed to target bi-lateral visual attention for patients experiencing unilateral neglect.
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Handout

Upper Body Home Exercise Programs

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AdultOTSports and Exercise
This exercise handout includes two separate options for client home exercise programs. The first targets general upper body strengthening, and the second targets fine motor range of motion and coordination using a few household items. Both have simple visuals and blank spaces to customize frequency, weight, and repetition recommendations, as well as easy-to-understand language to improve independence and follow through.
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Eval Tool

Understanding Spatial Relationships

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryVision
This therapy material allows the clinician to determine the patient’s accuracy with the visual-spatial relationships with these questions to locate target numbers among various shapes.
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