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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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Handout

Throat Clearing Alternatives

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SLPVoice
Frequent unnecessary throat clearing could lead to temporary vocal cord damage. This handout explains some of the natural reasons for throat clearing and how to try to use alternative strategies to reduce vocal cord damage.
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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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Handout

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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Therapy Material

Identifying Negation

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This task includes two pages of visual sets, challenging children to select which image does not fit.
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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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Handout

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 SLPs in Feeding and Swallowing in Schools

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Being able to eat and obtain nutrition and hydration in the school environment is an important part of academic success. This handout is designed for SLPs to provide to staff, parents, and school staff in order to provide insight into the role of the SLP as it relates to feeding and swallowing in schools.
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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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Handout

The Role of an SLP vs BCBA

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Handout to show parents and new clinicians some similarities and differences between SLPs and BCBAs. 
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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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Handout

The Pacemaker

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AdultOTCardiovascular Disease
This handout describes diagnoses that can lead to pacemaker placement, what the surgery and follow up look like, and guidelines for living with a pacemaker. It can be used as a resource for patient and caregiver education.
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Handout

The Patellar Reflex

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AdultOTBrain InjuryNervous System Conditions
This handout breaks down this classic test of the nervous system and is a resource for both clinicians as well as patients.
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The Neurologic Foot Examination

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AdultOTDiabetesNervous System Conditions
This resource guides a clinician through simple but thorough foot examination.
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