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Therapy Material

Attention to Detail: A Proofreading Task

Print Resource — US Letter — 2 pages
AdultSLPAttentionBrain InjuryVisual Processing
This intervention requires an individual to remember the directions, sustain attention to the task, alternate attention, and make judgments during this higher-level cognitive-linguistic task. (11th-grade reading level). The task challenges people to catch typos while also reading the material to answer content questions.
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Handout

At-Home Guide to Minimizing Bone Loss After Spinal Cord Injury

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AdultSpinal Cord Injury
This is a resource for individuals after spinal cord injury who would like to be proactive about managing their increased risk for osteoporosis. The document gives recommendations for prevention and management of bone loss through at home activities and appropriate personal behaviors.
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Eval Tool

Assessing and Documenting Dual Tasking

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AdultBrain InjuryStroke
This resource is designed for physical therapists addressing dual tasking goals in the clinical setting. The handout provides insight into the evidence base of administering and documenting dual tasking outcome measures.
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Eval Tool

Aspiration Precautions Communication Form

Print Resource — US Letter — 1 page
AdultSLPDysphagia
This form is designed for speech-language pathologists in medical settings needing to communicate aspiration precautions to nursing, physician, therapy, and kitchen staff.
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Therapy Material

Articulation Activity: Building /ch/ and /sh/ Snowmen

Print Resource — US Letter — 3 pages
AdultSLPArticulationCH/SH Sound
This activity features 6 fun snowmen with different /ch/ and /sh/ words on each part, have fun practicing sounds while building funky snowmen and placing them in a winter scene.
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Apps to Increase Independence After a Brain Injury

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryCalculations and TimeFinancesPlanning/Organizing
Phone and tablet apps can help increase independence with cognitive tasks after a brain injury. This list of apps addresses memory, medication management, diabetes management, money calculation, speech to text, spaced retrieval training, and time management. These apps can be trained by speech-language pathologists and other rehabilitation specialists in rehabilitation settings to address functional cognitive-linguistic […]
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Applying Makeup

Print Resource — US Letter — 1 page
AdultOTADLs/IADLsBrain InjuryStroke
This resource covers adaptive equipment and compensatory strategies that can be used in order to improve independence with applying makeup.
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Apple Accessibility Features for Cognitive Impairments

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryPlanning/OrganizingStroke
Technology can be a wonderful thing, but oftentimes a person does not know how to make technology more accessible for a person with impairments. This material provides details regarding accessibility features and accommodations for a person with cognitive impairments using Apple devices and includes instructions for setup.
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Handout

Aphasia: The Basics

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AdultSLPAphasia
Aphasia can be a confusing term for many to understand. Aphasia is a general term used when a person has trouble with four different parts that make up our language abilities. This handout will explain the umbrella term “aphasia” and break down the four parts of the language abilities that a speech therapist assesses after […]
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Handout

Aphasia Therapy: How to Practice at Home

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AdultSLPAphasia
This handout lists several specific challenges to do in order to target language at the word and phrase/sentence levels with ideas for targeting reading and writing.
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Handout

Aphasia Resources

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AdultSLPAphasia
People with aphasia and their families are hungry for resources and connection. How else are we to find meaning beyond our loss of neural language networks? By building networks of community. This handout describes national aphasia resources that anyone can access and find connection and meaning within.
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Clinical Reference

Anticipatory vs Reactive Balance Control

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AdultOTBalance/VestibularFall Risk
This handout highlights reactive versus anticipatory balance control. Interventions are provided to address impairments in both skills and progress with challenges to the sensory systems of balance.
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Handout

Anticipatory Self Awareness

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Self awareness! The solution to all safety and insight! The holy grail! Sometimes it’s there, sometimes it’s not. This handout is designed to help explain why it’s not there and how we might be able to get it back. Includes information on what anticipatory self awareness is, how to assess it, and how to treat […]
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Handout

Anosognosia

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout is a resource for staff, family, friends, and caregivers and describes the symptoms, risks, etiology, and strategies associated with anosognosia.
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Handout

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Speech Therapy

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AdultSLPALS
ALS is a progressive nervous system disease that does not have a cure. Speech therapy can help maintain the quality of life for the person’s communication, respiratory, and swallowing abilities throughout the disease progression as a part of the multidisciplinary team.
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Therapy Material

Visual Alternating Attention Tasks: Colors and Objects

Print Resource — US Letter — 6 pages
AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryVisual Impairment/NeglectVisual Processing
This task is meant to challenge the brain to alternate between two different visual concepts at the same time.
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Therapy Material

Visual Alternating Attention Task

Print Resource — US Letter — 1 page
AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryVisual Impairment/NeglectVisual Processing
The classic task that asks patients to alternate their attention between letters and numbers. In this case, the letters and numbers are color coded.
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Therapy Material

Alternating Attention & Visual Scanning: Matching Numbers to Letters

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AdultOTSLPAttentionVisual Impairment/NeglectVisual Processing
This task is designed as a task to tackle alternating attention and visual scanning. Patients are required to match a number to a letter in order to find the punchlines to jokes.
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Therapy Material

Alphabet Boards

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AdultSLPAphasia
Alphabet boards to have handy when assessing people with aphasia or other communication barriers. Two separate layouts: alphabetical and QWERTY keyboard.
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Therapy Material

Alliteration/Tongue Twister Dysarthria Activity

Print Resource — US Letter — 2 pages
AdultSLPMotor Speech/Dysarthria/Apraxia
Research suggests individuals with dysarthria have significantly increased speech errors and a slower rate when verbalizing challenging tongue twisters. Tongue twisters are often filled with alliterations or sounds repeated in close succession. This material provides evidence to support practicing verbalizing alliterations and tongue twisters to target articulatory precision and prosodic strategies and provides examples for […]
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