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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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Handout

Understanding and Explaining Test Scores with Use of a Bell Curve

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AdultOTSLP
This resource provides education on terms related to testing, an area to discuss a patients’ strengths/weaknesses with them (or have them write their own for awareness), and a bell curve to explain results to patients and caregivers following evaluation.
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Clinical Reference

Typical Musculoskeletal Tissue Healing Time Frames

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
Knowing how long different tissues may take to heal is critical for acute and post operative orthopedic rehabilitation. This resource lists typical tissue healing times based on current research and is a useful resource to help guide rehabilitation.
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Handout

Under Pressure: Wound Vac

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AdultOT
This handout provides basic information regarding wound vacuum assisted closure (VAC) and may assist with further discussion of how the VAC therapy affects participation with ADLs, functional mobility, or meaningful activities.
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Handout

Types of Headache

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AdultOTChronic Pain
This piece outlines three different types of headache based on symptoms and presentation to help the reader understand the differences between some of the more commonly encountered headaches.
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Handout

Types of Memory

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AdultSLPBrain Injury
The handout helps increase insight into the way that the brain creates and stores memory and how targeted functional therapy can optimize each type of memory.
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Handout

Types of Neuropathy

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AdultOTNervous System Conditions
This resource promotes client understanding of their neuropathy.  It includes information on different types of nerve injuries and their severity and causes.
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Clinical Reference

Typical Cervical Radiculopathy Presentations

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AdultOrthopaedics
This resource provides an overview of radiculopathy presentations per level in the cervical spine including weakness patterns and sensory loss/pain patterns.
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Clinical Reference

Typical Blood Lab Value Ranges

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AdultOTSLP
Therapists frequently encounter and are asked questions about lab value ranges, especially in the acute care setting. This resource is a great tool for those who need a quick reference to keep on their notepad that outlines typical lab value ranges for commonly encountered lab values. 
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Therapy Material

Two Language Tasks for Constraint-Induced Language Therapy (CILT)

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AdultSLPAphasia
Constraint-induced language therapy relies on solely verbal communication, avoiding the use of compensatory strategies such as gesturing, drawing, writing, etc. The two tasks included in this product force patients to use only verbal language to either A) put pictures of objects in a particular order, or B) place objects in the correct location within a blank scene.
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Handout

Types of Acquired Brain Injury

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AdultSLPBrain Injury
This handout is targeted for patients, staff, and caregivers, and outlines five major causes of acquired brain injury, including strokes, tumors, infections, brain hemorrhage, and loss of oxygen.
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Handout

Types of Cleft Lip/Palate

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PediatricSLPArticulation and PhonologyPediatric Voice
This handout visualizes normal cleft and lip development as well as the following types of cleft lip/palate: Unilaterial cleft lip with alveolar involvement, bilaterial cleft lip with alveolar involvement, unilateral cleft lip associated with cleft palate, bilateral cleft lip and palate, and cleft palate only.
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Types of Concepts and Ideas for Home Practice

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This resource describe how basic concepts are an integral part of children’s language repertoire. Concepts help children understand their surroundings, increase their ability to follow directions, and are essential for academic success. There are a variety of concepts that develop at different ages (starting as early as 2 years of age), including spatial, temporal, quantitative, qualitative, textural, and social-emotional.
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Handout

Transitional Foods

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout explains what transitional foods are, who should consume this type of food, the value of implementing this type of food, and factors that can influence tolerance.
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