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Tips for Caregivers or Staff Working with Someone with Aphasia

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AdultSLPAphasia
This handout is designed for staff, caregivers, friends, and family with those who have aphasia and provides specific strategies for both expressive and receptive communication.
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Tips for Caring for Someone with Dementia

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AdultOTSLPDementia
This is a handout outlining best practices for caring for someone who has dementia. Includes practical tips and strategies to optimize safety and independence.
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Clinical Reference

Tips for Effective and Efficient Documentation

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AdultOTSLP
This resource provides tips to make documentation more efficient but still effective, provides a checklist of what should be included in the documentation of skilled services, and provides a link to access an extensive list of action verbs to use in documentation of rehabilitation services.
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Tips for Successful Pivot Transfers

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AdultOTStroke
This is a handout for caregivers of someone requiring max assist with transfers outlining best practices and safety during a pivot transfer.
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Tips for Thriving After Surviving a Concussion

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AdultSLPBrain Injury
12 practical tips for those who have survived a concussion. This handout is designed to provide education to patients and their families to promote follow-through for self-care after this type of brain injury.
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Time Efficient Exercise for Long-Term Health

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AdultSports and Exercise
Working with clients who don’t have time to exercise, but want to? This handout is designed for people who struggle to find the time to exercise and are looking for time-efficient ideas that have a lasting impact on long-term health. The handout lays out the evidence base that correlates increasing VO2max with reduced mortality.
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Handout

Time and Location Based Prospective Memory

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AdultSLPBrain Injury
This handout describes prospective memory- remembering to do something at a time or place in the future.
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Handout

Thumb Stability Exercises and Pain Management

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
This handout visualizes 6 specific stability and pain management exercises for arthritis.
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Handout

Three Stages of Creating a New Memory

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Attention and memory impairments are common cognitive deficits following brain injury. This resource describes how these two skills relate and the three stages of memory, encoding, storage, and retrieval.
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Therapy Material

Three Low Vision Visual Attention Tasks for the Right Brain

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryVision
These three tasks challenge awareness of both the right and left sides of a page, alternating attention as needed, with all text designed to be appropriate for low-vision patients.
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Handout

Thickened Liquids Signs – NDD Language

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AdultSLPDysphagia
These NDD thickened liquids signs can be placed at head-of-bed to serve as helpful reminders for patients, staff, and family.
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Handout

Therapy and Universal Design

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AdultOTSLP
This resource looks at the principles of Universal Design from a therapy practitioner lens to improve understanding of how accessibility can affect independence and safety.
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The Supraglottic Swallow

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AdultSLPDysphagia
The supraglottic swallow maneuver requires a person to voluntarily close his/her vocal folds to add an extra layer of protection from aspiration. This material provides information regarding who should use this maneuver, the rationale, prerequisites, and instructions to complete this maneuver.
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Handout HEP

Theraband Home Exercise Program

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AdultOTOrthopaedicsSports and Exercise
This handout covers basic upper extremity theraband exercises with simple images and instructions for patients to use at home.
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Handout

The Science of Habits for Healthy Behaviors

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AdultOTSLPMental Health
This handout is based on the course: Using The Science of Habits To Promote Healthy Behaviors Across Practice Settings, presented by John Rider, PhD, OTR/L, MSCS, CEAS. Help clients form new habits to bring new levels of meaningful, person-centered therapy to your clinical practice with this handout.
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The SLP’s Role with Progressive Neurological Disorders

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AdultSLPDementia
This handout describes how SLPs can address changes with speech, language, cognition/thinking, memory, voice, swallowing, reading, writing, listening, and the need for assistive communication technology and/or devices in the context of neurological disorders.
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Handout

The Role of Therapies During COVID-19 Recovery

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AdultOTSLP
This handout provides basic information about COVID-19 as well as how physical, occupational, and speech therapy can assist in the recovery process.
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Handout

The Role of the Insula in the Brain

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
The insula is the underrated part of the brain unknown to many. It is responsible for many vital pieces of our daily activities such as our self-awareness, emotions, some senses, contributes to motor control, and complex speech. This handout provides knowledge about this important part of the brain.
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The Relationship Between Breath Support and Speech Production

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AdultSLPMotor Speech/Dysarthria/ApraxiaVoice
Pulmonary complications are common following brain injury. This handout explains how reduced breath support can lead to speech deficits and provides evidenced-based exercises that can be completed to improve breath support for speech production.
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