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Pseudobulbar Affect

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a form of emotional lability that is observed as sudden, frequent, and unpredictable outbursts of crying and/or laughing. This handout can help educate patients and their caregivers about what it is, what it isn’t, areas of the brain that cause it, what to do if a person has it, and how to access a lability scale that can be helpful when referring.
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Promoting Early Language Through Songs and Nursery Rhymes

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Often, parents, caregivers, and therapists find songs or nursery rhymes to be a simple or single layer activity when in fact they can provide a rich language experience. This resource gives ideas on how parents and clinicians can model and use songs and nursery rhymes to promote early language with the birth-3 population.
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Pronoun Milestones

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This quick visual provides approximate ages of pronoun development for both clinicians and caregivers.
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Prevention of Pressure Sores

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
Prevention is the key when it comes to pressure sores. This document describes ways to decrease risk as well as some tips if a sore has already developed.
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Prognosis After Brain Injury

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This resource describes prognosis of improvement and recovery following brain injury.
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Problem-Solving Approach to Reduce Dementia Related Behaviors

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AdultOTSLPDementia
This piece describes challenging behaviors and how the environment, caregiver, and person with dementia may trigger an increase of behaviors. Also provided is a non-pharmacological problem-solving approach to reduce or eliminate dementia related behaviors.
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Prevention of Falls from Bed

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Adult
This resource explains common reasons that clients fall from bed and utilizes a detailed and thorough approach to environmental, caregiver, and client interventions to reduce the risks.
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Pressure Sores

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
Inform patients them of the risks of pressure sores and improve understanding of the importance of avoiding the injury.
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Presbyphonia: The Aging Voice

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AdultSLPVoice
This handout explains presbyphonia, or “the aging voice,” what specific structures of the body change, and how to seek medical treatment if the person’s quality of life is being affected by these vocal changes.
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Clinical Reference

Precautions and Contraindications to Spinal Manual Therapy

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AdultOrthopaedics
Manual therapy is frequently used to treat spine related pain by therapists, osteopaths and chiropractors. This resource outlines contraindications to spinal manual therapy and is a helpful quick resource to review when in doubt about using manual therapy.
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Pre-Feeding Warmup

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Designed to clearly identify concrete ways to prepare children for feeding tasks, this handout helps parents and caregivers lay the groundwork for successful meal intake. The handout provides 9 strategies to help set children up for success during mealtime.
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Pre-Linguistic Skills

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout contains a list of 8 chronological skills that come before language that are expected to develop between 9 and 15 months.
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Post Traumatic Amnesia

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout helps explain what PTA is, describes characteristics of a person in a PTA state, length of PTA state with a correlation of severity of brain injury, and ways to help a person in a PTA state.
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Post Concussion Syndrome

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout explains the symptoms, possible causes and risk factors, and prevention suggestions.
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Positioning Guidelines After a Stroke

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AdultOTStroke
This visual guide shows the 4 most common positions: seated in a chair/wheelchair, lying in supine, lying on the affected side, and lying on the unaffected side, with simple explanations.
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Therapy Material

Possessive Pronoun Practice (Winter Theme)

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Comprehending and using pronouns correctly often presents as a challenge for young children with speech and language delays and/or disorders. This material helps children target goals for understanding and using pronouns.
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Playful Ways to Practice Speech Sounds

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
This handout is targeted for parents and caregivers and visualizes 8 fun and practical ways that they can engage in speech therapy practice with their kids outside of the therapeutic environment.
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Clinical Reference

Plantar Heel Pain Differential Diagnosis

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AdultOrthopaedics
This handout lays out the incidence, symptoms, and signs for the following diagnoses: Plantar fasciitis (PF), fat-pad atrophy (FPA), pes cavus, plantar fasciitis with fat-pad atrophy, and pes planus.
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Plant a Garden Cut & Paste Activity

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Vocabulary, following directions, and sorting are just a few language skills that can be developed when learning about gardening, where food comes from, and the changes that spring brings! This fun, engaging, and refreshing activity helps children learn concepts with a gardening theme.
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Picky Eating Tips for Caregivers

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout handout lays out three concrete strategies and breaks down each strategy into simple steps to incorporate into everyday life.
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