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Therapy Activity

Verbal Reasoning and Problem Solving Task

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AdultSLPAphasiaBrain Injury
For patients working on addressing verbal reasoning skills, this structured therapy task includes verbal prompts to optimize executive functioning, auditory processing, and verbal expression skills.
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Handout

Vascular Claudication

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AdultCardiovascular DiseaseChronic PainDiabetes
Use this vascular claudication handout to help patients better understand leg pain related to peripheral artery disease, including common symptoms, causes, diagnosis, and treatment options. This resource supports education around walking intolerance, circulation problems, risk factors, exercise therapy, and lifestyle changes that may improve mobility and long-term vascular health.
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Therapy Activity

Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST)

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AdultSLPAphasia
Verb Network Strengthening Treatment (VNeST) has been shown to improve generalization to untrained words. This resource explains what VNeST is, who the best candidates are, and steps for completion including adjustments and cueing that can be provided. A template and an example list of target verbs are included.
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Therapy Activity

Verbal Discussion: “What’s Going on in this Picture?”

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AdultSLPAphasia
The New York Times posts an intriguing photo without a caption every Monday to spark discussion. This activity guides a discussion by providing critical thinking questions for a person with aphasia to answer.
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Handout

Valsalva Maneuver

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AdultDysphagia
The valsalva maneuver can be used as an exercise for the treatment of dysphagia and is one step of the super-supraglottic swallow maneuver in which a person is voluntarily controlling airway closure to reduce the risk of aspiration while consuming food and/or liquid. This resource provides information regarding who should use this maneuver, the rationale, contraindications, and instructions to complete this maneuver.  
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Therapy Activity

Valentine’s Day Activity Pack

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Valentine’s Day brings lots of fun vocabulary and language for children to learn and use! This multi-activity pack provides therapy materials to use during this fun holiday.
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Therapy Activity

Valentine’s Language Activities for Kids

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
The first activity challenges kids to match Valentine-related vocabulary words to pictures by connecting them with lines. The second activity invites them to write a “letter of love,” and is a great opportunity to work on general writing skills, spelling, syntax, vocabulary, and social skills.
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Clinical Reference

Upper Extremity Neuropathies

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AdultOTNervous System Conditions
When a client has neuropathy, it is often up to clinicians to assess the presentation, refer to an MD for interdisciplinary collaboration, and educate caregivers about symptoms and expected outcomes in addition to performing interventions. This resource includes a comprehensive chart for clinicians outlining upper extremity neuropathies, diagnoses commonly associated with upper extremity neuropathy, and their presentations. Presented in alphabetical order for ease of use.
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Handout

Upper Extremity Preservation in Spinal Cord Injury

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AdultOTSpinal Cord Injury
This handout covers multiple strategies for preserving upper extremity function in individuals with spinal cord injury.
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Handout HEP

Urinary Incontinence Exercise Program

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AdultOTBowel/Bladder
This handout provides clear, simple instructions to improve strength and continence. Includes space for repetitions, hold times, frequency, precautions, and notes.
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Therapy Activity

Using Maps for Language Recovery

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AdultSLPAphasiaBrain Injury
This utilizes maps for different functional language activities targeting verbal expression, auditory comprehension, reading comprehension, and written expression. Includes a basic map and a more advanced map to serve different cognitive levels.
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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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AdultOTSLP
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 Activity

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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