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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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Handout

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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Therapy Activity

S-Blend Board Game

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
Looking for a way to get repetition practice of s-blends? This fun, winter-themed board game can be played with any set of dice. Roll a number, move the correct amount of spaces, and practice the s-blend on the landing spot. This prints out as two pages and can be taped together to provide a large visual that is fun and interactive for speech therapy practice.
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Rotator Cuff Tear

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
This handout aims to educate clients on the anatomy of the rotator cuff and explains how, where, and why rotator cuff tears happen.
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Handout

Rotator Cuff Dysfunction

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AdultOrthopaedics
Rotator cuff related dysfunction is one of the most common causes of shoulder pain. This handout outlines factors that may contribute to the development of rotator cuff related shoulder pain, expected recovery times, evidence-based treatment, and when surgery may be indicated.
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Handout

Rhythm, Music, Language, and the Brain

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AdultSLPBrain InjuryMotor Speech/Dysarthria/Apraxia
Based on the course Beat the Beat: Rhythm-Based Intervention for Communication Disorders by Dr. Yune S. Lee, this handout provides an overview of the dopaminergic system and its effect on temporal processing as related to speech and language. The handout describes the effect of DRD2 polymorphism (TaqIA).
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Handout

Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
This handout provides information on reverse total shoulder arthroplasty surgery, post-operative precautions, and general rehabilitation guidelines.
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Handout

Rheumatoid Arthritis

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AdultOTArthritis
This client handout explains the rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis, the progression of symptoms, management techniques, and the role of therapy.
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