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Handout

Language Strategies During Shared Book Reading

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PediatricSLPLanguage DevelopmentLiteracy
This handout gives ideas to structure shared reading interactions. Shared reading is a great way to offer opportunities for eliciting and scaffolding language.
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Therapy Material

Responding to Text Messages and Emails

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AdultSLPAphasia
This therapy task provides sample text messages and emails and challenges patients to write responses.
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Language Processing Activity: Word Associations

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This activity addresses semantic language. Kids are challenged to select the word from a group of words that matches a key word.
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Therapy Material

Picture Dictionary – Kitchen

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AdultSLPAphasia
This therapy task is designed to target functional kitchen vocabulary. Includes a full page picture of a kitchen with tasks to target auditory comprehension, expressive language, reading comprehension, and written expression. Includes vocabulary words and carrier phrases. A highly versatile therapy task material that can be targeted to reach a variety of language levels during structured language therapy tasks for people with aphasia.
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Therapy Material

Language Expansion Pack: Fall-Themed Vocabulary

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This interactive therapy activity encourages language expansion by visualizing fall-themed vocabulary and asking children questions that draw out vocabulary words that describe the various objects.
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Language Activity: Fall-Themed Sorting for Kids

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
These fun visuals are designed to help children practice sorting and categorizing based on vocabulary associated with fall/autumn. Includes two categories: Things we eat and things we wear.
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Language Activity: Build a Snowman

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Build a snowman scene activity (cut and glue): Complete this fun activity with the child to target a variety of language skills including following directions, vocabulary expansion, identifying concepts (e.g., big/little) and sequencing.
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Kitchen Safety Questionnaire

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AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsBrain Injury
This resource can be used as an intervention or a screening tool to work on safety awareness in the kitchen. 
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Handout

Keep Calm and Assess the Risk of Aspiration Pneumonia

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AdultSLPDysphagia
Does aspiration = pneumonia? Maybe. This handout is designed to help SLPs navigate this complex conversation with patients who are at risk of dysphagia. The handout breaks down the evidence base of three variables and how they stack up to different risks. This provides a clear visual as to how a healthy immune system and quality, consistent oral care may be a strong avenue to prevent aspiration pneumonia, even in the presence of aspiration risk.
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Handout

Kangaroo Care

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout is designed for parents/caregivers to give an overview of the possible benefits of skin-to-skin contact after birth, especially if their baby is in the intensive care unit.
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Handout

Joint Protection

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
This handout describes joint protection techniques and data related to arthritis diagnoses. Includes education in nutrition, lifestyle, activity, body, and movement to serve as an educational and training material to use during OT intervention.
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Handout

Isometrics for Rheumatoid Arthritis

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AdultOTArthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis can be a debilitating condition. This handout provides a generalized exercise plan to get someone with RA started with exercises that have a low likelihood of increasing pain.
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Handout HEP Therapy Material

Intrinsic Hand Strengthening

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
This handout provides exercises and activities to strengthen the intrinsic muscles of the hand to improve grip and pinch strength and fine motor coordination. This handout can be used as a modifiable home exercise program for any patient with weak or impaired hand functioning.
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Handout

Intracranial Hemorrhages

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Intracranial Hemorrhages can lead to both cognitive and physical deficits in which therapy is recommended. This handout explains the difference between different types of intracranial hemorrhages including epidural, intracerebral, subarachnoid, and subdural for educating patients and their caregivers.
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Handout

Intervention Ideas for Targeting Phoneme Specific Nasal Air Emissions Produced By Children With History of Cleft Palate

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
Nasal emissions can be very disruptive during speech production. This resource is for therapists and parents who need simple, cost-effective ideas for targeting phoneme specific nasal air emission for their children who have a history of cleft palate.
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Clinical Reference

Intervention Considerations for Guillain-Barré Syndrome

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AdultOT
This document provides insight and guidelines for appropriate goals and interventions for someone with Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS). The document focuses principles of treatment during the acute stage and later stages of Recovery from GBS or an acute exacerbation of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP).
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Handout

Internal vs. External Distractions

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout explains the difference between internal and external distractions, how both can negatively affect performance in therapy, and tips for reducing distractions for educating both patients and their caregivers.
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Therapy Material

Internal Memory Strategy: Mnemonics

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AdultSLPBrain Injury
This therapy task is for adults wanting to improve their memory after traumatic brain injury. The worksheet is designed to provide the building blocks necessary to use the mnemonic memory strategy to recall functional lists, such as names, locations, and goals.
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Exercises for Acute Neck Pain

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AdultChronic PainOrthopaedics
This document is a perfect handout after an initial evaluation or consultation for someone with neck pain. The document describes a general method for managing neck pain at home.
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