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Clinical Reference Handout

Batch Cooking for Energy Conservation

Print Resource — US Letter — 2 pages
AdultOTADLs/IADLs
Cooking three times a day, every day, can be overwhelming to plan, prep, and execute. As occupational therapy practitioners, we have tools to improve efficiency and independence with daily tasks. This session material describes reasons for batch cooking, helpful hints/tips to improve efficiency, and ideas for meals that work well in larger batches. You may give it to the client for review and use any part for your session, including actual meal preparation, or functional cognitive training such as preparing a meal prep calendar or practice in multiplying a recipe.
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Handout

Bedside Swallow Eval Scheduled

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This HIPAA-friendly note is designed to be folded in half (for display in their room) and personalized with the name of their SLP and the date/time of their bedside evaluation.
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Handout

Basilar Stroke

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AdultOTSLPStroke
The brain is complex and therefore injuries to the brain are also complex. This document helps outline what you would expect to see if someone had a basilar or brainstem stroke.
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Therapy Material

Basic Sorting Task

Print Resource — US Letter — 8 pages
AdultSLPDementia
This task allows individuals with dementia or moderate/severe impairments to name items, identify possible concrete and abstract categories, and sort them accordingly. Written labels are included if the person needs visual information for the sorting task.
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HEP Therapy Material

Basic Lower Extremity Seated Exercises

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AdultOTAging
Do you have a patient who is not safe to stand without assistance? This document offers a generic exercise program with only seated exercises. The document is great for health fairs, low level home exercise programs, and safe activities to increase activity tolerance for individuals with significant impairment.
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Therapy Material

Baking Recipe Math and Substitution Considerations

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
There are many patients who enjoy baking and want to return to this task. However, baking requires accurate measurements of ingredients for a tasty finished product. There can be quite a bit of math skills required and other thinking considerations if ingredient substitutions are needed. This activity addresses baking math with some practical situations and questions.
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Handout

Avoiding Painful Shoulders After Spinal Cord Injury

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AdultOTSpinal Cord Injury
Shoulder injury after acquiring a spinal cord injury is very common. This document is a summary of current suggestions for how to avoid painful shoulders after spinal cord injury.
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Handout

Autonomic Dysreflexia Emergency Cards

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AdultOTSpinal Cord Injury
Many people, including emergency departments and medical personnel, may be unfamiliar with autonomic dysreflexia. This handout provides a template to create an alert card explaining autonomic dysreflexia and an emergency medical information card providing important client information for anyone with a spinal cord injury. This template can be used as an intervention activity to improve health literacy and emergency preparedness.
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Therapy Material

Automatic Speech Cards

Print Resource — US Letter — 4 pages
AdultSLPAphasia
This intervention visual features 4 pages of automatic speech visual cues, including popular song lyrics, the numbers 1-10, days of the week, and months of the year.
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Therapy Material

Auditory Comprehension Task: Following Directions with Pictures

Print Resource — US Letter — 3 pages
AdultSLPAphasia
This structured therapy task contains one page of high frequency words and one page of low frequency words, as well as a sheet of instructions for how to structure the therapy task in three levels of difficulty.
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Therapy Material

Attentive Reading Constrained Summarization (ARCS)

Print Resource — US Letter — 2 pages
AdultSLPAphasiaBrain Injury
Attentive Reading Constrained Summarization (ARCS) is a cognitive-linguistic treatment created to improve a person’s discourse through reading and summarization using specific constraints. This material provides information regarding the purpose, components, prerequisites and population, materials, and steps for completion.
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Therapy Material

Attention to Detail: A Proofreading Task

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AdultSLPBrain Injury
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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AdultOTSpinal 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

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

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AdultSLPArticulation and Phonology
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 Injury
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 goals.
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Clinical Reference

Applying Makeup

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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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AdultOTSLPAgingBrain InjuryStroke
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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