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Eval Tool Handout

How to Use the Reflux Symptom Index (RSI)

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout explains how laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) and gastroesophageal reflux (GERD) are similar and different. Then the patient can use the Reflux Symptoms Index, and the SLP will calculate the score. The SLP and patient can track the scores to see if the scores change over time with compensatory dysphagia strategies and/or the physician, including medications for symptom relief.
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Eval Tool Therapy Material

Procedural Narrative Production Task

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AdultSLPAphasia
The procedural narrative production activity is a higher-level verbal fluency task where the person is asked to explain how to complete an everyday activity or resolve a problem. There are charts with details for the SLP to consider when evaluating the procedural narrative production.
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Handout

Pushing Behavior

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AdultOTBalance/Vestibular/FallsBrain InjuryStroke
This resource provides therapists a background of pushing behavior, quick assessments, and treatment ideas.
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Handout HEP

PNF Patterns

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AdultOTNervous System ConditionsStroke
Use the proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) patterns in this HEP to improve strength, coordination, motor control, and mobility of the upper extremity.
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Community Re-integration in a Wheelchair

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AdultOTSeating and Mobility
This resource covers different strategies to maximize independence in the community for wheelchair users. It includes topics such as navigating community obstacles, equipment for community engagement, and independence in the grocery store.
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Handout

Fair Housing Act Rules: Tools to Advocate for Clients

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AdultOTAgingHealth Management and Self AdvocacySpinal Cord Injury
This resource touches on Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and details Fair Housing Act (FHA) rules that may impact the independence of clients, and how these rules can be used to advocate for their quality of life.
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Clinical Reference

Contraindications for Exercise

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AdultOTSports and Exercise
Do you work with a vulnerable population? Do you struggle to remember important blood values or vital abnormalities? This document lists the contraindications for exercise so that you don’t have to memorize them. Keep it close to your exercise equipment for fast and easy reference.
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Clinical Reference

Medical Abbreviations Shorthand

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AdultOTSLP
Documentation is rarely anyone’s favorite part of healthcare. This document helps you quickly decipher acronyms used in others documentation and more efficiently write your own documentation. Post it next to your computer as a fast and easy reference or provide it as a reference for student clinicians to help them document more efficiently.
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Handout

How Important Are Imaging Scans?

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AdultOTChronic Pain
People with pain frequently undergo imaging scans. These can be useful in the right context, but can also create a lot of anxiety for people who learn they have issues such as “disc degeneration”. This handout is useful to alleviate some of the anxiety that can accompany imaging scans.
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Handout HEP

Evidence Based Core Exercises for Scoliosis

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
Do you wonder which exercises are best for people with scoliosis? This exercise intervention outlines two simple exercises that can be utilized as part of a home program for people with scoliosis.
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Handout

Your Whole Body Rehabilitation Therapy Team

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjurySpinal Cord InjuryStroke
Speech, occupational, and physical therapists make a powerful interdisciplinary team that works together with patients to make recovery possible. This handout is designed to help patients, family, and staff understand the unique and interrelated roles that each discipline encompasses.
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Therapy Material

Yoga Vowels: A Multisensory Approach to Learning Long and Short Vowels

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
This fun activity addresses the difference between long and short vowels. This multi-sensory approach includes visuals for yoga positions to match various long and short vowels, providing multi-sensory feedback to kiddos who need it.
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Clinical Reference Eval Tool

Yale Swallow Protocol

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AdultSLPDysphagia
The Yale Swallow Protocol (YSP) is a screening tool for swallowing. The person being screened either passes or fails, identifying individuals who would benefit from a more thorough evaluation of all aspects of swallowing function. This resource provides evidence regarding the sensitivity and specificity of the YSP and provides steps for completion and determination of pass/fail for appropriate recommendations to be made.
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Therapy Material

Written Expression Tasks

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AdultSLPAphasia
This therapy task features two functional tasks, the first one targeting single words and the second task targeting sentence level production.
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Clinical Reference Eval Tool

Wrist Extensor Compartments Anatomy and Tendinopathy Considerations

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
Wrist extensor tendinopathies are a less often encountered diagnosis in rehabilitation settings. It can be difficult to determine the best course of action when evaluating the dorsal wrist tendons. This evaluation tool outlines the location of different extensor tendon compartments in the hand and common pathologies seen in each compartment.
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Handout

Working Memory and Adaptive Strategies

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryDementia
Working memory is an essential part of everyday short term memory. Finding strategies for adapting to the loss of this executive function can mitigate declines associated with early stage dementia and improve independence with completion of everyday skills.
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Therapy Material

Workbook: Impact of Mental Health on Daily Routines

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AdultOTMental Health
This resource is for clients working through a mental health diagnosis such as anxiety or depression. Gives prompts for writing down questions, areas of difficulty, impacts of diagnoses, and prioritizing wants and needs. May be a good introduction to journaling for those with anxiety or depression, serves as a reminder of the people in a person’s support system, and guides OT intervention and plan of care in a way that prioritizes function and mental health.
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Handout

Word-Finding Strategies

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AdultSLPAphasia
This handout visualizes 9 strategies patients can use when they get stuck and can’t find the word they want. Pair this handout with therapy tasks targeting word-finding.
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Therapy Material

Word Finding Tables

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AdultSLPAphasia
A word-finding task based on categories and alphabet.
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Therapy Material

Word Association Web

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AdultSLPAphasia
This activity has a variety of words in a web format in which a patient has to generate a target word that is associated with the two words that it is sandwiched between.
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