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Clinical Reference

Maintenance Therapy: What Is It and How Do You Justify It In Documentation?

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Adult
Have you been discharging patients who are not making progress due to complex health conditions or a degenerative condition? If you feel that these individuals will decline in function after discharge you may be able to justify maintenance therapy. This document outlines what maintenance therapy is and how you justify it.
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Therapy Material

Make-Your-Own ADL Sequencing Board: Bathing and Dressing

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AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsDementia
This make-your-own board is for people who would benefit from visual step-by-step instructions for dressing and bathing. Cut out steps that pertain to individual patients and place them on a board in a customized sequence.
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Eval Tool

Low-Vision, Aphasia-Friendly Visual Pain Scale

Print Resource — US Letter — 1 page
AdultOTSLPAphasiaBrain InjuryVision
This legible, colorful, and graphics-based pain scale allows nursing and other care-giving staff to communicate with their patients about their level of pain throughout the day for the purposes of pain management.
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Handout

Low-Cost Leisure for Older Adults

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AdultOTADLs/IADLsAging
This resource outlines a variety of low-cost ideas to engage older adults in leisure activities. It provides a number of assessments that OTs can use to assess levels of engagement in leisure activities.
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Handout

Low Vision Set-Up for Meals Using the Clock Face Method

Print Resource — US Letter — 1 page
AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsVision
In the United States, it is estimated that 12 million adults over 40 have low vision, which can negatively impact self feeding ability. Use of the clock face method for meal setup can improve outcomes associated with intake, and this resource includes both a visual guide to clock face meal setup as well as a list of strategies for caregivers assisting with dining for those with low vision.
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Handout

Low Stimulation Following Brain Injury

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This resource provides a list of how to implement a low stimulation protocol, signs, symptoms, agitation or overstimulation triggers, and what to do/not to do when a person becomes agitated or overstimulated.
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Clinical Reference

Loading Guidelines for the Intervertebral Disc

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AdultOrthopaedics
Lower back pain is generally non-specific in nature, but the intervertebral disc can be attributed to some back pain. People with back pain are frequently discouraged when they are told they have disc problems and feel like they cannot do anything about things like “degenerative disc disease,” “disc herniations,” and “disc bulges.” This resource provides information for clinicians and people with back pain interested in optimal loading for the intervertebral disc.
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Handout

Let’s Talk Aspiration: How Much is Too Much?

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This material explains the difference between “aspiration” and “silent aspiration.” New research with healthy swallows shows occasional aspiration and silent aspiration can be tolerated by the body in small amounts. This information will help with the differential diagnosis of dysphagia and presbyphagia and prevent over-diagnosis of dysphagia.
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Therapy Material

Left Neglect/Low Vision Mental Math

Print Resource — US Letter — 12 pages
AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Mental math sheets for patients recovering from brain injury and experiencing impairments associated with left neglect and low vision. Mental math requires sustained attention and can be a useful exercise when addressing functional problem solving required to complete basic cognitive tasks. The worksheets include a red bar on the left for those needing a visual cue to attend fully to the left side.
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Eval Tool

Left Neglect Quick Informal Assessment

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryVision
This quick informal assessment includes a clock task, line division task, letter cancellation task, and sentence copying task.
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Therapy Material

Feature Analysis Word Maps

Print Resource — US Letter — 10 pages
AdultSLPAphasia
Language therapy task with 10 pages of stunning photos with word maps tackling semantic feature analysis.
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Therapy Material

Language Stories

Print Resource — US Letter — 5 pages
AdultSLPAphasia
This activity features 4 engaging photos along with a list of content words to provide cues when asking clients to generate stories about the picture scenes.
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Therapy Material

Visual Scanning + Language Task

Print Resource — US Letter — 25 pages
AdultOTSLPAphasiaBalance/Vestibular/FallsVision
This language task features 48 word squares that correlate to 48 single written word cards. The task is designed for speech-language pathologists working with people who have therapy goals related to word-finding, single word functional reading, and visual-spatial matching. Great for SLP-OT and SLP-PT co-treats!
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Therapy Material

Inclusion/Exclusion of Categories

Print Resource — US Letter — 3 pages
AdultOTSLPAphasiaBrain Injury
Circle items that belong to a category and put an X through items that do not belong. This product contains three categories: Fruits, animals, and things that start with B.
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Therapy Material

Language Task: Building a Medical History Form

Print Resource — US Letter — 7 pages
AdultSLPAphasia
This resource is for people who have aphasia or other communication impairments. It is based on the PACT method, published in The ASHA Leader, March 2016.
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Therapy Material

Automatic Speech Scenes

Print Resource — US Letter — 3 pages
AdultSLPAphasia
These 12 scenes can be used to illicit spontaneous speech of common phrases, such as, “Thank you,” “Hello,” “Goodnight,” etc.
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Therapy Material

Responding to Text Messages and Emails

Print Resource — US Letter — 2 pages
AdultSLPAphasia
This therapy task provides sample text messages and emails and challenges patients to write responses.
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Therapy Material

Picture Dictionary – Kitchen

Print Resource — US Letter — 2 pages
AdultSLPAphasia
This therapy task is designed to target functional kitchen vocabulary. Includes a full page picture of a kitchen with tasks to target auditory comprehension, expressive language, reading comprehension, and written expression. Includes vocabulary words and carrier phrases. A highly versatile therapy task material that can be targeted to reach a variety of language levels during structured language therapy tasks for people with aphasia.
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Therapy Material

Kitchen Safety Questionnaire

Print Resource — US Letter — 2 pages
AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsBrain Injury
This resource can be used as an intervention or a screening tool to work on safety awareness in the kitchen. 
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