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Tub Transfer Bench

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OTADLs/IADLsHome Modifications
A tub transfer bench can be an important DME consideration. Verbal explanation can be difficult, and this handout can offer a written and visual guide for proper set up and use of a transfer bench. May be used in conjunction with home evaluation, discharge planning, caregiver education, and/or during OT intervention to improve recall and follow through.
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Clinical Reference

Transgender Affirmative Care

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AdultOTSLP
The handout covers practical strategies that clinicians can implement in the areas of assumptions, body language, verbal language, and organizational strategies that promote transgender affirmative care in healthcare settings.
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Tongue Tie

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PediatricSLPArticulation and PhonologyFeeding and Swallowing
This handout helps visualize and explain the four most common types of tongue ties.
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Tips for Parents of Children Who Stutter

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PediatricSLPArticulation and PhonologyFluency
This handout handout features five strategies that highlight extra time, reducing distractions, and setting the child up for success by talking with friends, family, and teachers about these strategies.
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The Visual Fields and the Brain

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStrokeVision
This handout outlines the pathway of the visual fields as they travel from the light rays entering the eyeball to the occipital lobe at the back of the brain. This helps clarify why certain left or right brain injuries will have different kinds of field cuts on the same or opposite sides of the brain, depending on location of damage.
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The Trigeminal Nerve

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AdultSLPDysphagiaMotor Speech/Dysarthria/Apraxia
This handout is for patients who have lost sensory or motor function of the fifth cranial nerve. The handout features simple anatomy/physiology of the trigeminal nerve, including the alveolar nerves, lingual nerves, and buccal nerves.
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The Role of Speech-Language Pathologists in Pre-Literacy Skills

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PediatricSLPLiteracy
This handout describes the role of speech-language pathologists in helping young children develop pre-literacy skills. The handout defines 5 elements of phonological awareness that SLPs target in speech therapy, including onset-rime, segmentation, alliteration, rhyming, and phonemic awareness.
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The Role of OT in Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

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AdultOTOrthopaedics
The handout is designed to be provided to patients so that they understand how occupational therapy can assist with recovery after total shoulder arthroplasty.
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The Right to Refuse to Eat

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This is targeted towards family members and staff and describes the neurological processes involved in eating/drinking, how medical professionals can rule out barriers to oral intake (such as dysphagia), the risks of feeding in the face of refusal, considerations for artificial nutrition and hydration, and a brief description of hospice services.
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The Point of Thickened Liquids (NDD version)

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout is for people who have dysphagia and choose to use thickened liquids as a compensatory strategy due to a delayed swallow.
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The Mendelsohn Dysphagia Intervention

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AdultSLPDysphagia
Handout featuring instructions and evidence base for Mendelsohn swallow exercise to improve hyoid elevation and excursion.
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The Hypoglossal Nerve

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AdultSLPDysphagiaMotor Speech/Dysarthria/Apraxia
This handout handout describes the hypoglossal nerve anatomy and function and describes how damage to the hypoglossal nerve may affect the tongue.
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The Effortful Swallow

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This handout provides the evidence base for the effortful swallow as well as information for when this strategy may be useful and how to successfully complete it.
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Teaching Kids to Self-Feed

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout is designed to give parents and caregivers ideas to teach the important self-care skill of self-feeding. 
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Stroke

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AdultOTSLPStroke
This handout describes what a stroke is and visually distinguishes the difference between an ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. Contains information about trans-ischemic attacks, signs/symptoms of stroke, and causes of stroke.
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Stress and Cognition

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryMental Health
This handout includes accessible, evidence-based information about how stress affects cognition and features 30 simple strategies to try that may help reduce stress. It is particularly designed for patients and families in the midst of rehabilitation after traumatic events.
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Strategies and Tips for Meaningful Conversations With Your Child

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout is includes three specific strategies for parents/caregivers with a breakdown of how to incorporate each strategy into everyday life.
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Spoon Feeding

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout for feeding specialists to share with parents and caregivers at/around 6 months of age, when babies are ready to begin spoon feeding. The handout outlines 4 quick tips to help ensure success.
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Speech Therapy and the Brain

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AdultSLPBrain Injury
Handout illustrating the cognitive-linguistic scope of practice for speech-language pathologists. This handout describes a brief history of the field and breaks down the following cognitive-linguistic therapy targets: Initiation, anticipation, sequencing, impulse control, attention, memory, planning, organization, problem solving, visuospatial processing.
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