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Mindfulness Exercise for SLPs: Aphasia Awareness

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AdultSLPAphasia
This exercise is intended to do two things: 1) Provide awareness about the existence of aphasia and how people can be most helpful when meeting someone with aphasia and 2) provide clinicians with a mindful perspective about what it means to be unable to communicate for a short period of time.
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Breathing Techniques for People with Lung Impairments

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AdultOTRespiratory
This resource includes several different types of breathing techniques and simple mindfulness practices that can improve a client’s breathing and awareness.
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Mild Cognitive Impairment

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AdultOTSLPAgingDementia
This handout explains this diagnosis in general terms and provide some lifestyle suggestions to help MCI.
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Migraines

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AdultChronic Pain
Migraine headaches can cause significant pain and suffering for people who experience them. You may wonder how migraines may be treated in a therapy setting and what the evidence supports for reducing the impact of migraines. This handout outlines some non pharmacological treatment options and strategies that may help with migraines.
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Microwave Meals

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AdultOTADLs/IADLs
This resource includes the risks of stovetop cooking and many simple meal option “recipe cards” to make during a treatment session using only a microwave. Use to assess whether simplification of home cooking improves functional independence or if ongoing assistance will be required.
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Metacognition

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Metacognition is a higher-level cognitive skill critical for improving organization, problem solving, self-monitoring, and self-correction. It is dependent on self-awareness, which can be impaired following brain injury. This handout explains metacognition, metacognitive strategies, and ways to improve self-awareness.
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Mental Fatigue Following Brain Injury

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Mental fatigue is a common long-lasting symptom that is poorly understood by people with brain injuries. This educational handout describes mental fatigue following brain injury, symptoms and places/times it can be worse, provides suggestions for assessment tools to track mental fatigue over a period of time, and tips/strategies to manage mental fatigue.
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Memory Scrapbooking

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AdultOTBrain InjuryDementia
This is an outline for a scrapbooking activity that caregivers/family can create with the patient with dementia in order to recall and commemorate past events.
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Ménière Syndrome

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AdultBalance/Vestibular/Falls
The cause of Méniére syndrome is not well understood but causes dizziness or vertigo, intermittent hearing loss, sensation of fullness in the ears, and ringing in the ears. Frequently episodes of dizziness are the most debilitating and last for hours or days. Hearing loss generally happens slowly over time with acute flare-ups affecting the ability to hear low frequencies first.
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Therapy Activity

Memory Log Template

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This memory log is designed for rehab therapists working with people who have memory impairments. The first of the 2 page template captures names of therapists, doctors, therapy goals, events leading to hospitalization and current location. The second page can be filled out each day the patient is in the facility and captures what was accomplished with each therapy discipline, appointments, medical notes, visitor notes, medication tracking, and general reminders.
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Therapy Activity

Memory Book Template

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This material is a memory book template that can be printed and used for multiple patients in different settings.  A variety of pages are provided to be able to choose and create a memory book that is most functional for your patient.
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Therapy Activity

Medication Management with Low Vision

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryVision
This material provides information about resources now available from ideas created by the working group established by Section 904 of the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act, education regarding how OT and ST can target medication management, and audio files/medication labels for practice.
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Medication Management Aids

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AdultOTBrain Injury
This handout provides a variety of aids including smart device applications, medication boxes, and pharmacy programs for medication administration that may help a person be more independent with medications.
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Clinical Reference

Medication Administration Based on Diet Level

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout helps provide guidance to the SLP and other staff regarding oral medication administration based on the diet level. 
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Handout

Medical Trauma

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AdultOTSLPMental Health
Based on the course Rehabilitation After Medical Trauma: Reinvent the Heal by Amy Salerno, MS, CCC-SLP, this resource is designed to be posted in clinical facilities to spark discussion amongst staff on how to build a medical trauma informed culture and environment at their facility.
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Therapy Activity

Make-Your-Own-Communication-Board for People with Aphasia

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AdultSLPAphasia
A quick tool for SLPs to build custom communication boards for people with aphasia or other communication barriers. This digital download comes with 5 pages of icons (60 icons total). The patient can select words that they find useful. Cut, paste, laminate.
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Handout

Managing Myasthenia Gravis

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AdultOTSLP
This handout describes strategies to use when managing the symptoms of myasthenia gravis. Includes dietary, exercise, and medication considerations.
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Meal Preparation Guidelines for Diabetics

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AdultOTDiabetes
This resource distills current recommendations for diabetic diets into an easy to replicate format and incorporates these guidelines into OT session cooking tasks to combine education and home management training. This aims to improve confidence and independence, and prevent the progression of diabetic symptoms. To be used in collaboration with licensed dietitians.
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