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PediatricSLPLiteracy
This book activities targets literacy skills, including print motivation and awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary, phonological awareness, and narrative skills.
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PediatricSLPLiteracy
This book activities targets literacy skills, including print motivation and awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary, phonological awareness, and narrative skills.
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Therapy Material
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PediatricSLPLiteracy
This book activities targets literacy skills, including print motivation and awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary, phonological awareness, and narrative skills.
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AdultOTChronic PainMental Health
Meditation and mindfulness techniques may be helpful to help manage persistent pain. This intervention handout outlines a simple body scanning technique for pain reduction.
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AdultOTBowel/Bladder
Nocturia has a significant impact on sleep quality. This handout provides strategies to prevent nocturia through lifestyle modification and a list of common bladder irritants to avoid.
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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
During this cognitive task, the patient will read a birthday gift scenario and select various items to meet the set budget. This task will target attention to detail, planning, decision making, and financial planning.
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AdultOTMental Health
Managing a mental health diagnosis can be a lifelong learning process. This handout explains the bipolar diagnosis, common characteristics of manic and depressive episodes, expectations for symptoms and management, and treatment options including the role of OT.
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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Due to the increased number of children speaking more than one language, parents need more resources to understand how language develops in the bilingual child’s brain. This handout provides general information on bilingual language learning.
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AdultSLPAphasiaBrain InjuryDysphagia
This is an updated design based on our original Better Speech and Hearing Month handout. Designed to target a more general audience, this handout describes the three hats worn by speech-language pathologists in medical rehabilitation settings: speech/language/voice, cognition, and dysphagia.
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AdultOTBrain InjurySeating and MobilitySpinal Cord InjuryStroke
This handout includes caregiver education regarding the benefits of proper wheelchair positioning. Includes such benefits as fall reduction, improved intake, reduced risk of aspiration, improved skin integrity, pain reduction, and increased ADL independence. Aim is to improve caregiver attention and follow through for use of the proper seating system and timely repositioning.
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AdultOTADLs/IADLs
Cooking three times a day, every day, can be overwhelming to plan, prep, and execute. As occupational therapy practitioners, we have tools to improve efficiency and independence with daily tasks. This session material describes reasons for batch cooking, helpful hints/tips to improve efficiency, and ideas for meals that work well in larger batches. You may give it to the client for review and use any part for your session, including actual meal preparation, or functional cognitive training such as preparing a meal prep calendar or practice in multiplying a recipe.
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AdultSLPDysphagia
This HIPAA-friendly note is designed to be folded in half (for display in their room) and personalized with the name of their SLP and the date/time of their bedside evaluation.
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AdultOTSLPStroke
The brain is complex and therefore injuries to the brain are also complex. This document helps outline what you would expect to see if someone had a basilar or brainstem stroke.
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AdultSLPDementia
This task allows individuals with dementia or moderate/severe impairments to name items, identify possible concrete and abstract categories, and sort them accordingly. Written labels are included if the person needs visual information for the sorting task.
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AdultOTAging
Do you have a patient who is not safe to stand without assistance? This document offers a generic exercise program with only seated exercises. The document is great for health fairs, low level home exercise programs, and safe activities to increase activity tolerance for individuals with significant impairment.
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SLPLanguage Development
Basic concepts are foundational building blocks to understanding and expressing more complex ideas. This resource gives a road map to when certain concepts should be mastered that aligns with when they are developmentally appropriate.
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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Therapists working with early intervention and young school age children often work on basic concepts such as colors, numbers, shapes, and letters. Not only does this provide the child an opportunity to work on language skills, but prepares the child for working on concepts in school. This basic concepts board is a go-to for clinicians working with kids to learn colors, shapes, and first letters.
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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
There are many patients who enjoy baking and want to return to this task. However, baking requires accurate measurements of ingredients for a tasty finished product. There can be quite a bit of math skills required and other thinking considerations if ingredient substitutions are needed. This activity addresses baking math with some practical situations and questions.
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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
Understanding functions of objects is an important skill in language development. Object function links a verb to an object. This activity will help children learn to use verbs.
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AdultOTSpinal Cord Injury
Shoulder injury after acquiring a spinal cord injury is very common. This document is a summary of current suggestions for how to avoid painful shoulders after spinal cord injury.
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