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Handout

Pre-Linguistic Skills

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout contains a list of 8 chronological skills that come before language that are expected to develop between 9 and 15 months.
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Handout

Post Traumatic Amnesia

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout helps explain what PTA is, describes characteristics of a person in a PTA state, length of PTA state with a correlation of severity of brain injury, and ways to help a person in a PTA state.
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Handout

Post Concussion Syndrome

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout explains the symptoms, possible causes and risk factors, and prevention suggestions.
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Positioning Guidelines After a Stroke

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AdultOTStroke
This visual guide shows the 4 most common positions: seated in a chair/wheelchair, lying in supine, lying on the affected side, and lying on the unaffected side, with simple explanations.
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Therapy Activity

Possessive Pronoun Practice (Winter Theme)

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Comprehending and using pronouns correctly often presents as a challenge for young children with speech and language delays and/or disorders. This material helps children target goals for understanding and using pronouns.
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Handout

Playful Ways to Practice Speech Sounds

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
This handout is targeted for parents and caregivers and visualizes 8 fun and practical ways that they can engage in speech therapy practice with their kids outside of the therapeutic environment.
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Clinical Reference

Plantar Heel Pain Differential Diagnosis

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AdultOrthopaedics
This handout lays out the incidence, symptoms, and signs for the following diagnoses: Plantar fasciitis (PF), fat-pad atrophy (FPA), pes cavus, plantar fasciitis with fat-pad atrophy, and pes planus.
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Therapy Activity

Plant a Garden Cut & Paste Activity

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Vocabulary, following directions, and sorting are just a few language skills that can be developed when learning about gardening, where food comes from, and the changes that spring brings! This fun, engaging, and refreshing activity helps children learn concepts with a gardening theme.
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Therapy Activity

Picture Prompts for Written Narrative Task

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AdultSLPAphasia
This written narrative session task requires the patient to view various pictures and write a description of what is happening. If a patient needs more prompts, some visual cues are provided.
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Picky Eating: Plate Rotation

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout is written in accessible language for families and caregivers and provides instructions on how to use plate rotation at home as a strategy to increase diversity of food intake for their children.
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Therapy Activity

Sorting Fruits and Veggies

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
With this task, children sort fruits and vegetables into different piles, using words to describe each food item. The task targets language development as well as addresses some of the more challenging food items for children struggling with different tastes and textures.
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Therapy Activity

Mealtime Routine Visual Schedule

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout provides a visual for 7 steps of eating, from grabbing plats and utensils to taking bites to cleaning dishes. Cut, laminate, and place on velcro strips.
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Therapy Activity

Phonological Components Analysis

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AdultSLPAphasia
Phonological components analysis (PCA) is a type of treatment for anomia. PCA is a phonology-based treatment that is related to speech sounds, fundamental components of language. This material provides the goal of PCA, research supporting PCA, and a diagram/the steps for completing PCA.
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Therapy Activity

Phonological Awareness Sound Cards: Vowels and Consonants

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PediatricSLPLanguage DevelopmentLiteracy
Teaching pre-literate patients and those with phonological awareness how to blend, segment, and differentiate between phonemes is challenging. This set of flashcards provides picture-based speech sound cards that are easily used to blend, segment, manipulate, and play with phonemes to build understanding and awareness.
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Therapy Activity

Phonological Awareness Activity (Spring Time Vocabulary)

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Get ready for some springtime speech fun by working on phonological awareness! This activity not only targets vocabulary skills, but also helps children understand the relationship between sounds and letters.
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Handout

Phases of Gait and Muscle Activation

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AdultSeating and Mobility
Do you have patients who are struggling with gait mechanics? This resource outlines the activity of different muscle groups when walking. Use it to identify weaknesses and better understand how to get your patients walking better.
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Handout

Pharyngeal Stage of Swallowing in Adults

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This material describes the pharyngeal components of normal swallowing in adults. Broken down piece by piece and taking up 2 pages, every detail of the anatomy and physiology of this enormously important and very fast phase of the swallow is explained.
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Therapy Activity

Pharyngeal Exercise Flashcards

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AdultSLPDysphagia
These pharyngeal exercise cards will give patients everything they need to perform these exercises at home. Patients will have visuals with verbal directions, a space for a personalized number of repetitions/sets to be written down, and learn the purpose of how each exercise will improve the swallow.
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Therapy Activity

Personalized Visual Map of Brain Injury Changes

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Every brain injury is unique. Many patients and care partners may become overwhelmed with trying to understand what was damaged from the brain injury. This visual material helps patient and care partners better understand what changes are being addressed in therapy and what parts of the brain are involved.
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