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Handout

Hyponatremia

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Hyponatremia is a life-threatening condition that can occur after a brain injury. This handout describes what the condition is, how to spot it, what affect the condition has on the brain, and why it’s important to report these signs and symptoms to a physician immediately. Designed for staff and caregivers in homes/facilities that treat people with brain injuries.
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How We Create Voice and Speech

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AdultSLPVoice
This handout provides visual anatomy of vocal function as well as a written description of how voice and speech are created. Includes a partial list of diagnoses that affect voice.
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How to Make Thickened Liquid Popsicles

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AdultSLPDysphagia
There are, in fact, ways to make it so that thickened liquids don’t taste like snot. One strategy is to serve the drinks as cold as possible… even better, freeze them!
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How to Help Children Produce the /ch/ and /sh/ Sounds

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
This visual handout is designed to assist speech-language pathologists when training parents and caregivers on how to help children learn /ch/ and /sh/ sounds. Featuring concrete strategies and suggestions, this handout will help parents and caregivers feel confident when carrying over skills learned in therapy to their home environment.
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How To Get Children To Answer Questions At Home

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Many children with language delays/disorders have difficulty answering “wh” questions, especially about their day at school. This handout lays out some ideas that may help. Designed for parents and caregivers.
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How to Create an Orientation Station

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout provides concrete and visual strategies to create an “orientation station” at home that will help provide individualized and consistent orientation and memory cues to reduce anxiety and compensate for impairments.
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How to Complete Oral Care

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout is designed for staff, patients, family, and caregivers to improve the quality of oral care and reducing the risks associated with oral bacteria in the body.
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How Speaking Valves Work

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AdultSLPDysphagiaVoice
This handout is designed for speech-language pathologists working with patients and families with tracheostomies who want to understand how speaking valves work. The handout features basic anatomy of voice, as well as basic eligibility requirements and safety precautions.
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How Damage to the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerves Affects Swallowing and Voice

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AdultSLPDysphagiaVoice
This handout provides a visual depicting the unique pathway of the recurrent laryngeal nerves from the brainstem, around the heart, and up to the larynx. The handout describes the purpose of cranial nerves as well as the specific functions of the vagus nerve and recurrent laryngeal nerves. The handout features a list of symptoms that patients may experience with damage to these nerves.
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How Can OT Help You Manage COPD?

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AdultOT
This handout for educating clients and caregivers includes common pain points for those newly managing COPD. Training includes what COPD is, basic energy conservation, pacing, and task simplification with ADL and home management examples, how to manage oxygen tubing, and incorporating a daily exercise routine.
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Hidden Dangers for People with Dysphagia on Thickened Liquids

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout is designed for patients, caregivers, and staff to illustrate where “hidden” thin liquids may pose a risk for people with dysphagia on thickened liquids. While not a comprehensive list, this handout highlights ice, straws, frozen treats, soup, and saliva, laying out the reasons why these things may pose an increased risk of aspiration and offering alternative solutions to reduce this risk.
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Hiatal Hernia, Reflux, and Dysphagia

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout provides an overview of the anatomy/physiology of a hiatal hernia as well as how this injury relates to reflux and dysphagia. This handout helps provide a concrete visual explanation for a very esoteric concept as related to dysphagia rehabilitation.
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Hereditary Ataxias and Dsyphagia

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout describes what ataxia is, what its signs and symptoms are, and provides a description of treatment options.
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Good Vocal Hygiene Habits for Children

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout outlines three elements that contribute to overall vocal hygiene, including environment, hydration, and vocal rest. The handout is appropriate for staff, parents, and caregivers.
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Getting Through the Day with Energy to Spare

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AdultOTADLs/IADLs
This handout helps patients establish strategies to optimize energy throughout the day while completing ADLs. The handout is broken down into dressing, grooming/hygiene, and bathing/showering.
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GERD Precautions to Prevent Aspiration Pneumonia

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AdultSLPDysphagia
Handout featuring explanation of aspiration pneumonia as related to GERD as well as 8 specific strategies for reducing the symptoms of GERD and related risk of aspiration pneumonia. Designed for speech-language pathologists working with patients who have dysphagia exacerbated by GERD.
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General Swallow Precautions

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout helps ensure best practices when it comes to general aspiration precautions in the context of dysphagia. Many of these straight-forward strategies are frequently overlooked; this visual is meant to provide a visual reminder for everyone involved in the care and safety of someone experiencing dysphagia. Note that these are general precautions and are not meant to target any one particular dysphagia diagnosis. Specific strategies will need to be added for individual cases.
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Functional Sign Language for Young Children

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout contains visuals for how to complete 9 functional signs along with a basic explanation of how to introduce signs to children.
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Executive Functions

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This resource describes what executive functions are to educate patients and their caregivers. Includes information about attention, processing speed, regulation, awareness, initiation, response inhibition, self-monitoring, mental flexibility, organization, sequencing, working memory, and planning. Second page includes a list of assessments specifically designed for targeting executive functions.
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Emergent Awareness

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout is designed to help patients (and really, mostly their family and friends) understand the process of awareness and how it impacts recovery from brain injury.  The handout includes ways to assess emergent awareness as well as ways to improve emergent awareness. Part of our self awareness series.
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