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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 a person has a stroke or brain injury.
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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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Aphasia Resources

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AdultSLPAphasia
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/Vestibular/Falls
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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Anticipatory Self Awareness

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Includes information on what anticipatory self awareness is, how to assess it, and how to treat and/or manage it.
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Anosognosia

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryCaregiver Supports
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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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Speech Therapy

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AdultSLPProgressive Neurological Conditions
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

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryVision
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

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryVision
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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AdultOTSLPVision
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

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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 practice.
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Aging in Place

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AdultOTAgingHome Modifications
In the current aging population, there are many people who will benefit from home modifications in anticipation of aging in place. Rehabilitation professionals are uniquely suited to creating accessible environments. This handout is for clients pursuing aging in place. It explains the aging in place concept, and the potential benefits and scope of work a person can expect when pursuing home modification.
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Clinical Reference

Aerosol Generating Procedures: A Resource for SLPs

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AdultSLPDysphagiaVoice
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many changes for how speech-language pathologists approach our daily evaluations and treatments with individuals with dysphagia and voice treatment. This handout is a resource to give more guidance for how to safely treat aerosol-generating procedures to reduce the risk for infections for providers.
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HEP Therapy Material

Advanced Seated Exercises

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AdultOTAging
Do you have a patient who needs some higher level exercise but may be unable to balance well when standing? This document offers a generic exercise program with only seated exercises. The document is great for health fairs, moderate level home exercise programs, and lists safe activities to increase activity tolerance for individuals with moderate impairment.
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Therapy Material

Adult Interest Checklist

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AdultOTSLPAging
A task for the older adult population to help identify current interests and potentials for new passions. This will assist the patient in the transition out of work into retirement and will also assist the therapist in their goals and direction of care.
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Therapy Material

ADL Checklist for Early Dementia

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AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsAgingDementia
This simple visual checklist is meant for those clients with early stage dementia who still have physical capability but forget to complete all necessary steps in ADL routine, to allow for completion of routine with less caregiver cues and more opportunity for independence. Simple list on the first page, more detailed items on the second. May be cut apart and rearranged if needed and copied. If desired, may laminate and reuse daily with a dry erase marker.
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Therapy Material

Addressing Stress and Maintaining Life Balance

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AdultOTMental Health
This structured therapy task guides patients when identifying life stressors and includes a tool for planning weekly self-care tasks.
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Adaptive Apps and Technology

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AdultOTSLPAgingBrain InjuryStroke
This handout is designed for therapists to share with patients when discussing incorporating adaptive apps and technology into their lives.
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Handout

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Persistent Pain

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AdultOTArthritisChronic PainStroke
This handout provides information based on acceptance and commitment therapy principles that may help those suffering from chronic pain reduce disability and continue to participate in things they enjoy.
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