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Handout

Using a Walker Safely

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AdultOTBalance/Vestibular/FallsSeating and Mobility
This handout is designed for patients learning how to use a walker safely. It includes tips related to general safety, safe pathways, carrying items, and reaching.
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Handout

Types of Dementia

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AdultOTSLPDementia
This handout describes the basic signs and symptoms of 7 types of dementia.
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Handout

Types of Attention

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AdultSLPBrain InjuryStroke
Attention remains the foundation of all cognitively based tasks and is a fundamental concept to communicate to patients before beginning therapy. This handout provides a definition and concrete examples of each type of attention.
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Types of Aphasia and their Neurological Correlates

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AdultSLPAphasia
This handout visualizes the ways that aphasia may present given a particular brain lesion. The handout describes the common signs and symptoms of these types of aphasia: Anomic, conduction, Wernicke’s, transcortical motor, Broca’s, and global.
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Clinical Reference

Transgender Affirmative Care

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AdultOTSLP
The handout covers practical strategies that clinicians can implement in the areas of assumptions, body language, verbal language, and organizational strategies that promote transgender affirmative care in healthcare settings.
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The Visual Fields and the Brain

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStrokeVision
This handout outlines the pathway of the visual fields as they travel from the light rays entering the eyeball to the occipital lobe at the back of the brain. This helps clarify why certain left or right brain injuries will have different kinds of field cuts on the same or opposite sides of the brain, depending on location of damage.
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Handout

The Trigeminal Nerve

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AdultSLPDysphagiaMotor Speech/Dysarthria/Apraxia
This handout is for patients who have lost sensory or motor function of the fifth cranial nerve. The handout features simple anatomy/physiology of the trigeminal nerve, including the alveolar nerves, lingual nerves, and buccal nerves.
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Handout

The Role of OT in Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
The handout is designed to be provided to patients so that they understand how occupational therapy can assist with recovery after total shoulder arthroplasty.
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Handout

The Right to Refuse to Eat

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This is targeted towards family members and staff and describes the neurological processes involved in eating/drinking, how medical professionals can rule out barriers to oral intake (such as dysphagia), the risks of feeding in the face of refusal, considerations for artificial nutrition and hydration, and a brief description of hospice services.
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Handout

The Point of Thickened Liquids (NDD version)

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout is for people who have dysphagia and choose to use thickened liquids as a compensatory strategy due to a delayed swallow.
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Handout

The Mendelsohn Dysphagia Intervention

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AdultSLPDysphagia
Handout featuring instructions and evidence base for Mendelsohn swallow exercise to improve hyoid elevation and excursion.
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Handout

The Hypoglossal Nerve

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AdultSLPDysphagiaMotor Speech/Dysarthria/Apraxia
This handout handout describes the hypoglossal nerve anatomy and function and describes how damage to the hypoglossal nerve may affect the tongue.
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The Effortful Swallow

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout provides the evidence base for the effortful swallow as well as information for when this strategy may be useful and how to successfully complete it.
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Handout

Stroke

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AdultOTSLPStroke
This handout describes what a stroke is and visually distinguishes the difference between an ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. Contains information about trans-ischemic attacks, signs/symptoms of stroke, and causes of stroke.
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Handout

Stress and Cognition

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryMental Health
This handout includes accessible, evidence-based information about how stress affects cognition and features 30 simple strategies to try that may help reduce stress. It is particularly designed for patients and families in the midst of rehabilitation after traumatic events.
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Handout

Speech Therapy and the Brain

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AdultSLPBrain Injury
Handout illustrating the cognitive-linguistic scope of practice for speech-language pathologists. This handout describes a brief history of the field and breaks down the following cognitive-linguistic therapy targets: Initiation, anticipation, sequencing, impulse control, attention, memory, planning, organization, problem solving, visuospatial processing.
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Handout

Sialorrhea (Drooling)

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AdultSLPDysphagiaProgressive Neurological Conditions
This handout describes the particular challenges of sialorrhea, or excessive salivation, brought on by various conditions in the adult population. The first page describes the condition and its causes. The second page offers an explanation of treatment options.
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Handout

Shaker Swallow Exercise

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout includes information about how to complete the shaker exercise as well as visual anatomy to describe how the exercise is attempting to strengthen suprahyoid swallow muscles.
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Resilience and Traumatic Brain Injury

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout reviews overcoming denial, observing the situation, and learning from the experience and provides a list of books and websites that brain injury survivors can look to for information about resilience.
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Rancho Los Amigos Scale for Families

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryCaregiver Supports
This handout features a 10-stage version of the Rancho Los Amigos scale for those recovering from severe brain injuries. The handout describes each of the 10 stages and provides specific strategies for how families can interact and engage with their loved one during each stage.
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