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Clinical Reference

Fear of Falling and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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AdultOT
This handout functions as a worksheet that can be completed with the patient to identify catastrophic thinking patterns related to fear of falling, leading to avoidance behavior. This worksheet helps patients question their own thoughts and identify potential strategies to minimize faulty thinking and fear of falling avoidance behavior.
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Handout

Family Games to Support Brain Injury Recovery

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryCaregiver SupportsStroke
Family members often ask how they can support more thinking and language engagement at home after their loved one has a stroke or brain injury. This handout provides some suggestions but not all the possible games to consider
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Eval Tool

Family Friendly Standard Score Visualization

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AdultPediatricOTSLPCaregiver Supports
This family-friendly standard score visualization graphic makes it possible to easily explain standardized test scores to families.
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Handout

Falls and Recurrent Brain Injuries: Why Both Should Be Avoided

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Falls continue to be one of the most pressing concerns in medical facilities, as they come at a high cost, financially, medically, and emotionally. This handout provides statistics regarding falls and highlights how falls are related to brain injuries and cognitive decline. A must read for anyone doubting the need for significant fall precautions while in a medical facility.
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Therapy Material

Falling Leaves Fricatives Activity

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
Fricatives are difficult sounds that are frequent flyers in the speech sound disorder caseload. This activity provides a fun and interactive way to practice these target sounds for the fall season.
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Therapy Material

Fall/Autumn Speech Sounds

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PediatricSLPArticulation and PhonologyLiteracy
7 pages of fall sounds, complete with traceable letters, engaging photos, and opportunities to think and write words that start with different sounds!
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Therapy Material

Fall Trail Mix Visual Recipe

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PediatricSLPLanguage DevelopmentLiteracy
This visual recipe for young or emerging readers is designed for clinicians, teachers, parents, and caregivers targeting feeding goals. This activity also touches on reading, following directions, and sequencing.
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Therapy Material

Fall Themed Language Pack (Vocabulary, Following Directions, and Sorting)

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
An abundance of opportunities for enhancing language skills comes with the changing of the season. In this language activities pack, children of all ages improve their ability to follow directions, expand their vocabulary repertoire, sort and categorize, learn grammar/syntax rules, identify concepts, and more!
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Therapy Material

Fall Themed Fluency Activities

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PediatricSLPArticulation and PhonologyFluency
Looking for something fun and no prep for fluency therapy? Use these Fall holiday themed activities with children who stutter. Activities are distance learning friendly too.
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Therapy Material

Eye Tracking Activity Pack for Children with Dyslexia

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PediatricSLPLiteracy
Eye tracking difficulties can contribute to making academic success exceedingly difficult for children with dyslexia. This activity pack is for families, therapists, and educators who are seeking fun attention, concentration, and eye tracking activities to help target their children’s reading fluency goals. An eye tracking tool and activity are included.
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Handout

Expressive Language Integration During Screen-Based Activities

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Have any clients that are addicted to screen time and parents who are terrified to take away the screen for fear of a behavior? Use this handout to provide parents and caregivers with some ideas on how to support language development within the context of screen-based activities.
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Handout

Expressive Language Development for Preschoolers

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Children with expressive language delays struggle with developing a wide range of grammatical structures and also exhibit limited mean length utterances (MLU) for their age. Below is a quick resource to guide SLPs in choosing developmentally age appropriate grammatical goals for preschoolers (12 months – 46 months).
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Handout

Expressive and Receptive Vocabulary Milestones

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Children with speech/language delays do not meet vocabulary milestones at the same time as typical, same-aged peers. Because of this, children with language delays need increased verbal input and exposure to new words. This resource serves as a quick reference for clinicians and provides information on the number of words children generally acquire expressively and receptively by age (12 month to 36 months).
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Handout

Expanding Expressive Language Through Home-Based Activities

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout is designed for therapists who are looking for fun activities to address expressive language skills in the home setting with toddlers and young children. This handout is also a resource for parents who want to continue building their children’s expressive language goals outside of the therapy setting.
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Handout HEP

Exercises to Decrease Elbow, Wrist, and Hand Stiffness

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AdultOTBrain InjuryStroke
This handout is for patients who are experiencing spasticity after a brain injury. The handout provides instructions for specific exercises for clients to complete upper extremity self range of motion.
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Handout HEP

Exercises for Shoulder Subluxation in the Acute Phase

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AdultOTStroke
This handout provides a few exercises that can be performed at home for shoulder subluxation. These isometric exercises strengthen the rotator cuff musculature, deltoid and pectoralis.
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HEP Therapy Material

Exercises for Bell’s Palsy

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AdultOTSLPNervous System Conditions
This resource is for people experiencing the transient effects of Bell’s palsy. The exercises are not meant to be a cure for the condition, but rather a way to optimize muscle elasticity and length during the period of facial nerve paralysis. Includes exercises targeted at the eyebrows, neck and chin, nose, lips, and eyes.
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Handout

Exercise Guidelines for People Living with Myasthenia Gravis and Myopathy

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AdultHealth Management and Self Advocacy
Living with myasthenia gravis or myopathy means adhering to unique guidelines in order to reduce the risks associated with these diagnoses. The handout visualizes 13 specific strategies that help optimize exercise opportunities for this population.
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Handout

Exercise Intensity Guidelines

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AdultOTSports and Exercise
Calculating optimal heart rate during exercise can be tricky to accomplish and remember. This handout provides the basic formulas to calculate maximum heart rate and healthy range of heart rate during both moderate intensity and vigorous intensity exercise.
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Clinical Reference

Evidence-Based Stretching with Dosage Guidelines

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AdultOTSports and Exercise
Static stretching is commonly prescribed by therapists for improving range of motion, alleviating pain, and maximizing function. This resource outlines how static stretching improves range of motion and which parameters are optimal to maximize stretching-related outcomes.
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