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Handout

GERD Precautions to Prevent Aspiration Pneumonia

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AdultSLPDysphagia
Handout featuring explanation of aspiration pneumonia as related to GERD as well as 8 specific strategies for reducing the symptoms of GERD and related risk of aspiration pneumonia. Designed for speech-language pathologists working with patients who have dysphagia exacerbated by GERD.
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General Swallow Precautions

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout helps ensure best practices when it comes to general aspiration precautions in the context of dysphagia. Many of these straight-forward strategies are frequently overlooked; this visual is meant to provide a visual reminder for everyone involved in the care and safety of someone experiencing dysphagia. Note that these are general precautions and are not meant to target any one particular dysphagia diagnosis. Specific strategies will need to be added for individual cases.
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Executive Functions

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This resource describes what executive functions are to educate patients and their caregivers. Includes information about attention, processing speed, regulation, awareness, initiation, response inhibition, self-monitoring, mental flexibility, organization, sequencing, working memory, and planning. Second page includes a list of assessments specifically designed for targeting executive functions.
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Emergent Awareness

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout is designed to help patients (and really, mostly their family and friends) understand the process of awareness and how it impacts recovery from brain injury.  The handout includes ways to assess emergent awareness as well as ways to improve emergent awareness. Part of our self awareness series.
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Dining Out with Dysphagia

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AdultSLPDysphagia
Living with dysphagia can make it difficult to eat out a restaurants or other people’s homes; however, this shouldn’t keep patients and their families from doing so. Mealtime is a significant part of the day for social interaction with family and friends This handout contains some ideas and tips to consider so that dining out […]
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Dysphagia Diet Textures (NDD)

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AdultSLPDysphagia
Handout describing the different levels of the National Dysphagia Diet.
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CPAP Use and Cognitive Function

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AdultSLPBrain Injury
This handout describes the link between CPAP use and cognitive functions. The handout includes two research studies and a clear outline of how sleep affects specific cognitive functions.
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Coping With the Loss of Taste After Stroke or TBI

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AdultBrain InjuryDysphagiaStroke
Handout for people coping with the loss of taste after surviving a brain injury or undergoing radiation treatment for head and neck cancer.
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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

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AdultOTChronic PainNervous System Conditions
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a form of chronic pain that commonly affects the arms and legs. CRPS can cause individuals to experience pain that is out of proportion to the severity of the initial injury. This handout is designed for rehabilitation therapists helping patients understand this diagnosis.
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Strategies for People with Dementia and Their Caregivers

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AdultSLPDementia
This handout features 16 concrete action items for people with dementia and their caregivers. From keeping organized to how to structure conversations, these simple tips can help optimize independence and reduce confusion, anxiety, and fear for people with dementia.
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Chemotherapy-Induced Cognitive Impairment (Chemo Brain)

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AdultSLPCancer
\We are just now beginning to understand the effects that chemotherapy has on the brain, including mental fog difficulty concentrating, and short-term/working memory impairments. This handout describes why these symptoms occur as well as how skilled therapy can help resolve these symptoms.
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Causes and Long-Term Outlook of Post-Operative Cognitive Dysfunction

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Often, patients continue to experience cognitive dysfunction after undergoing surgery and while in rehabilitation therapy. This can present from mild symptoms, including poor working memory and poor attention/focus, to more severe symptoms, including severe memory impairments that put the patient at risk for further decline in function. While the etiology of this condition is not fully understood, this handout aims to provide patients, family, caregivers, and staff with important information about the causes and long-term outlook of this condition, which can be very costly, both financially and emotionally to patients and their families.
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Caregiver Burnout Signs and Strategies

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AdultOTSLPCaregiver Supports
Caregiver burnout is an often overlooked but important element to discuss within the context of a rehabilitation team and should play a central role when planning a discharge home for a patient after recovery in a medical facility.
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Candidiasis (Oral Thrush)

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout is describes the causes, signs/symptoms, treatment, and prevention guidelines, with an emphasis on proper oral care.
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Brain Injury Symptoms According to Location of Brain Damage

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Handout for rehabilitation therapists/specialists to outline how different parts of the brain will present with different symptoms when damaged.
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Brain Injury and Rest

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout describes the need for the brain to rest after an injury in order to heal with a brief discussion about why the struggle between the need for sleep and the increased difficulty the brain has getting sleep after a brain injury. The handout includes 9 specific strategies that patients can implement themselves and 10 ways that family, friends, and medical staff can help.
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Bladder Infections and Cognitive Dysfunction

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AdultOTSLPBowel/Bladder
This handout describes the brain-bladder connection, particularly among older adults, and lists the signs/symptoms associated with cognitive dysfunction in the context of a urinary tract infection. Designed for clinicians, staff, family, caregivers, and patients.
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Better Hearing and Speech Month

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AdultSLP
Handout for speech-language pathologists to provide to related services that articulates the specialized services Speech-Language Pathologists have to offer for adults in rehabilitation settings.
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Bell’s Palsy

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AdultOTSLPNervous System Conditions
This handout describes the diagnosis, symptoms, risks, recovery, and treatment/strategies about Bell’s palsy. Designed to help rehabilitation therapists provide health literacy materials to patients experiencing Bell’s palsy.
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Avoiding Isolation

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AdultOTSLPMental Health
This handout discusses the prevalence and results of isolation and loneliness, and gives strategies for reducing and avoiding isolation in older adults, particularly after a medical change that results in a functional decline in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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