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Assessing Pain in Individuals Diagnosed with Dementia

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AdultOTSLPDementia
This clinical reference provides therapy practitioners a way to assess accurate pain levels in individuals with dementia.
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Handout

Tips To Improve Physiological Age

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AdultOTSLPAgingHealth Management and Self Advocacy
There is nothing we can do about our chronological age, but we can still improve our functioning and health by improving our physiological age. This handout is a nice resource for older adults who may feel the golden years aren’t so golden.
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Running-Related Injury: Risk Reduction Strategies

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AdultOTSports and Exercise
This intervention outlines evidence-based recommendations to reduce the risk of running-related injuries.
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Handout

Botox for the Nervous System

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AdultOTBrain InjuryNervous System ConditionsSpinal Cord InjuryStroke
Do you have patients with spasticity? Botox can help with the reduction of spasticity for those with impaired nervous systems. This document helps patients, caregivers, clinicians, and students understand how Botox is used therapeutically.
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Handout

Avoiding Pressure Ulcers

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AdultOTSLPNervous System ConditionsSpinal Cord Injury
Do you have a patient who is at risk for skin breakdown? This document provides simple and effective tips and recommendations for those with the risk of integument breakdown. Send a patient or caregiver home with these strategies to better improve patient compliance and outcomes.
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Eval Tool

Cervical Proprioceptive Measurement Tool

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AdultOTBrain InjuryOrthopaedics
Concussion and cervicalgia are often accompanied by cervical proprioceptive deficits. This document creates a simple way to measure, document, and access proprioceptive deficits. The document includes instructions for performance and information needed to effectively scan into documentation.
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Handout

Three Swallowing Exercises for People with Parkinson’s

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AdultSLPDysphagiaProgressive Neurological Conditions
This handout visualizes three exercises featured in the evidence base for people with Parkinson’s, including: Expiratory muscle strength training (EMST), the Masako, and chin tuck against resistance (CTAR).
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Therapy Activity

Decoding Skills for Reading

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PediatricSLPLiteracy
Decoding is essential to establishing effective reading skills. This resource includes activities that utilize Orton-Gillingham methods to help your client develop their reading skills.
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Therapy Activity

Literacy Pack: The Wonky Donkey

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PediatricSLPLiteracy
This book activities pack targets literacy skills, including print motivation and awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary, phonological awareness, and narrative skills.
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Handout

Oral-Pharyngeal Dysphagia: Advancing from Purees to Solids

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Introduction and advancement to solids can be a tricky process for some little ones. Variation with developmental milestones and food preferences can make the transition even more difficult. This resource provides quick tricks and tips to help your child advance from purees to solids.
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Clinical Reference

Quick Guide to Pediatric SLP-OT Co-Treats: How to make It Work and Make It Worth It

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PediatricSLPArticulation and PhonologyLanguage Development
Teamwork across disciplines not only has benefits for clients, but also provides opportunities for clinicians to have meaningful collaboration. This quick guide directs how to initiate, execute, and see results with collaborative therapy sessions.
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Apple Accessibility Features for Hearing Impairments

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Technology can be a wonderful thing, but often a person does not know how to make technology more accessible for a person with impairments. This material provides details regarding accessibility features and accommodations for a person with hearing impairments using Apple devices and includes instructions for setup.
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Clinical Reference

Basic Cheat Sheet for the use of Passy Muir Speaking Valve with Ventilation

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AdultSLPDysphagiaVoice
Working with the ventilation population can be initially daunting as a speech-language pathologist (SLP). This material provides a basic review of types of ventilation and ventilator settings that are important to know and understand before initiating Passy Muir speaking valve (PMV) trials. Furthermore, a review of the benefits of PMV use and collaboration with a respiratory therapist is provided.
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Therapy Activity

Football Numerical Problem Solving Activity

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
When asking patients about their hobbies and interests to incorporate those when creating person-centered goals, a common response is “football.” This activity is made for those football lovers to target their numerical problem solving skills related to their favorite sport.
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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 Activity

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

Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation 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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