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Handout

Seven Stages of Alzheimer’s

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AdultOTSLPDementia
Alzheimer’s disease has a general progression trajectory but may affect each person uniquely so all the signs/symptoms may not occur. Dr. Barry Reisbery of New York University developed the seven stages of Alzheimer’s disease to allow a better understanding of the illness progression for the person with Alzheimer’s, healthcare providers, and family members. This handout gives examples of each stage and the possible level of assistance needed from family members and/or care partners.
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Handout

Sex After Spinal Cord Injury (For Men)

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AdultOTSpinal Cord Injury
This resource is about the birds and the bees after spinal cord injury. There is information for males on what works, what doesn’t, what to expect, and what should be avoided when it comes to sex.
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Handout

Sex After Spinal Cord Injury (For Women)

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AdultSpinal Cord InjuryWomen's Health
This resource is about the birds and the bees after an injury. There is information for females on what works, what doesn’t, what to expect, and what should be avoided when it comes to sex.
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Handout

Visualizing Steps to Put on a Nasal Cannula

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AdultSLPBrain InjuryRespiratory
This therapy task is for patients who benefit from visual cues to independently place nasal cannula. Includes 3 steps of task with clear visuals.
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Therapy Activity

Sentence Strips for Language Expansion

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Sentence strips provide a visual way to build sentences, providing a concrete learning strategy for young children working on expanding their utterance length.
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Sensory Regulation and Dementia

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AdultOTSLPDementia
This handout describes evidence based methods for sensory regulation in individuals with dementia.
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Handout

Sensory Strategies for Improving Unilateral Neglect

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AdultOTBrain InjuryVision
Unilateral neglect is a challenging disorder that arises after injury to the brain. This resource covers a variety of sensory strategies that can be implemented in order to improve attention to the affected side.
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Therapy Activity

Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract (SOVT) Exercises

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AdultSLPVoice
SOVT exercises are commonly used in voice treatment because they allow the vocal folds to vibrate with less effort and more ease. They can be helpful for warming up the voice, relaxing the voice throughout the day, cooling down the voice, and promoting vocal longevity.
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Therapy Activity

Semantic Feature Analysis

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AdultSLPAphasia
This therapy activity is designed for SLPs working with people with aphasia who are targeting word-finding and semantic language skills as part of their rehabilitation therapy program.
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Eval Tool

Self-Rating Form for Primary Progressive Aphasia

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AdultSLPAphasia
Using a self-rating form can be a helpful place to identify what a person with primary progressive aphasia knows or areas for therapy goals. Patients can complete this form during the first and last sessions to measure and increase the person’s understanding and feelings about primary progressive aphasia.
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Handout

Self-Awareness

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout describes the foundations of self-awareness as related to brain injury. This information breaks down intellectual awareness, emergent awareness, and anticipatory awareness and describes treatment processes in rehabilitation therapy that can improve self-awareness.
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Self-Feeding and Low Cognitive Function Setup

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AdultOTSLPDementia
When working with a patient with dementia, the way a task like self feeding is presented can set the tone for the level of participation. This handout offers caregivers simple techniques for set up, proper positioning, and orientation to task that can improve carryover of OT interventions to maximize independence.
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Handout

Self Care with a Pacemaker

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AdultOTCardiovascular Disease
Use this handout to educate patients about practical self-care adaptations and precautions following pacemaker placement. The resource reviews dressing, bathing, grooming, toileting, transfers, mobility, and energy conservation strategies that you can reinforce during discharge planning and post-surgical rehabilitation.
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Eval Tool

Screening for Proprioceptive Deficits

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AdultOTBrain InjuryStroke
This screening tool provides a simple assessment and score sheet in order to detect deficits in proprioception. Multiple methods of testing are included.
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Handout

Sciatic Nerve Glides

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AdultOrthopaedics
Nerve pain down the leg can be challenging to treat, especially if the pain cannot be reduced directly with low back related postures or movements. In these cases, sciatic nerve glides may be the best option to encourage gentle movement of the nerves that course into the lower part of the lower back. This intervention piece outlines how to perform sciatic nerve glides.
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Handout

Scar Management Techniques

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AdultOT
Scars can be a painful, uncomfortable, unsightly area of concern for many clients after an injury. Scar management can be an important part of recovery, and understanding various types of scar management and empowering your client to participate with this part of daily self care is integral to regaining independence.
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Handout

Scapular Dyskinesis: Conscious Muscle Control and Mass Movement Patterns

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AdultOrthopaedics
Impaired scapular movement is commonly associated with shoulder dysfunction. This handout provides three of the top conscious muscle control exercises to properly orient the scapula for improved posture, increased stabilization, and improved rotation during functional movement of the shoulder. This handout also provides mass movement patterns to improve scapular range of motion for functional reaching patterns.
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Handout

Sarcopenic Dysphagia

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AdultSLPDysphagia
Sarcopenic dysphagia is often underestimated and under-diagnosed within the elderly population. A multidisciplinary team is necessary to diagnose and treat sarcopenia and sarcopenic dysphagia. This handout provides more information about how to manage this disorder.
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Handout

Sahrmann’s Lower Abdominal Exercises

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AdultSports and Exercise
Do you have patients who need a lower abdominal exercise program? This handout provides an explanation of Shirley Sahrmann’s abdominal progression. All phases of the exercise are listed here so that you can select the difficulty of the exercise and allow patients to progress on their own if needed.
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Therapy Activity

Saint Patrick’s Day Story + Scavenger Hunt

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout addresses vocabulary, sentence building, utterance length, and social interaction. Have fun searching for Saint Patrick’s Day themed images while sharing the history of this celebrated holiday!
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