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Morning ADL Training Session/OT Shower Room Signs

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AdultOTADLs/IADLs
Often times an occupational therapist will schedule a shower or morning ADL session with an individual and find out the person is already dressed or had a shower from staff. This handout offers 2 room signs that can be posted to alert staff not to complete the activity, and provide a visual reminder for the patient.
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Modeling Language with AAC

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PediatricSLPAACLanguage Development
This therapy intervention task is designed for pediatric clinicians working with children to use AAC devices to effectively communicate wants, needs, and ideas. The printable resource includes a PDF with instructions on how to model language using AAC and includes a quick practice board with the words “want,” “go,” “stop,” “help,” “turn,” and “more.”
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Mindfulness for SLPs: Post-Work Stress and Burnout

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AdultSLP
As SLPs, we bear witness to dramatic change in people’s lives. This consistently high demand for empathy and compassion puts SLPs and other healthcare professionals on a fast track to burnout. This mindfulness exercise is designed to counter the idea that you’re not enough and to provide a boundary between your work time and your home time.
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Mindfulness for SLPs: Before Going Into Work

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AdultSLP
Productivity standards, facility politics, patient-family dynamics, and the sheer weight of almost constant conversation and connection with people on a daily basis can mean we sometimes wake up and think… I’m not sure I can get through this day. This mindfulness exercise is designed to allow your mind, body, and soul to rest and re-center, generating renewed energy to offer compassion, grace, and empathy to those we serve.
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Mindfulness for SLPs: Before a Care Conference

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AdultSLP
Therapists are often are left in charge of informing patients and their families of significant cognitive impairments. Often, there is denial, anger, sadness, loss, and shock that comes, unfortunately many times targeted at the messenger. This mindfulness exercise is designed to allow you the space to advocate for patients’ independence and freedom of choice.
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Mindfulness Exercise for SLPs: The Paradox of Grief and Transformation

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AdultSLP
This mindfulness exercise is designed for SLPs working in rehabilitation environments where patients are experiencing grief following a significant change in their lives. The exercise is designed to bring mindfulness to the process of transformation that can only occur through the doorway of grief.
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Mindfulness Exercise for SLPs: Motivational Interviewing

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AdultSLP
This exercise ties into the book Motivational Interviewing in Health Care: Helping Patients Change Behavior. Motivational interviewing is a practice that you can mindfully incorporate into your daily therapy routine. This exercise can ultimately lead to a better relationship between you and your patients with higher levels of self-motivation and participation in the rehabilitation process.
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Mindfulness Exercise for SLPs: In the Face of Resistance

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AdultSLP
This exercise is intended to provide the frame of mind you need in order to face and embrace resistance within a rehab therapy setting. It is best suited for a one-on-one session when you are addressing a change in status (e.g., stroke, brain injury, diagnosis) that has led to the need for change (e.g., using memory strategies, establishing a payee, giving up driving, etc).
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Mindfulness Exercise for SLPs: Making the Most Generous Assumptions

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AdultSLP
This exercise is intended to provide a space in which to envision how we can extend the most generous assumptions of those we work with, while also establishing boundaries that prevent resentment, misunderstanding, and judgement.
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Mindfulness Exercise for SLPs: Aphasia Awareness

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AdultSLPAphasia
This exercise is intended to do two things: 1) Provide awareness about the existence of aphasia and how people can be most helpful when meeting someone with aphasia and 2) provide clinicians with a mindful perspective about what it means to be unable to communicate for a short period of time.
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Breathing Techniques for People with Lung Impairments

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AdultOTRespiratory
This resource includes several different types of breathing techniques and simple mindfulness practices that can improve a client’s breathing and awareness.
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Mild Cognitive Impairment

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AdultOTSLPAgingDementia
This handout explains this diagnosis in general terms and provide some lifestyle suggestions to help MCI.
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Migraines

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AdultChronic Pain
Migraine headaches can cause significant pain and suffering for people who experience them. You may wonder how migraines may be treated in a therapy setting and what the evidence supports for reducing the impact of migraines. This handout outlines some non pharmacological treatment options and strategies that may help with migraines.
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Microwave Meals

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AdultOTADLs/IADLs
This resource includes the risks of stovetop cooking and many simple meal option “recipe cards” to make during a treatment session using only a microwave. Use to assess whether simplification of home cooking improves functional independence or if ongoing assistance will be required.
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Handout

Metacognition

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Metacognition is a higher-level cognitive skill critical for improving organization, problem solving, self-monitoring, and self-correction. It is dependent on self-awareness, which can be impaired following brain injury. This handout explains metacognition, metacognitive strategies, and ways to improve self-awareness.
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Mental Fatigue Following Brain Injury

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Mental fatigue is a common long-lasting symptom that is poorly understood by people with brain injuries. This educational handout describes mental fatigue following brain injury, symptoms and places/times it can be worse, provides suggestions for assessment tools to track mental fatigue over a period of time, and tips/strategies to manage mental fatigue.
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Memory Scrapbooking

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AdultOTBrain InjuryDementia
This is an outline for a scrapbooking activity that caregivers/family can create with the patient with dementia in order to recall and commemorate past events.
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Ménière Syndrome

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AdultBalance/Vestibular/Falls
The cause of Méniére syndrome is not well understood but causes dizziness or vertigo, intermittent hearing loss, sensation of fullness in the ears, and ringing in the ears. Frequently episodes of dizziness are the most debilitating and last for hours or days. Hearing loss generally happens slowly over time with acute flare-ups affecting the ability to hear low frequencies first.
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