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Handout

Grab Bar Placements for Toilets and Showers

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AdultOTADLs/IADLsBalance/Vestibular/FallsHome ModificationsNervous System ConditionsSeating and MobilitySpinal Cord InjuryStroke
Use this visual guide to discuss optimal grab bar placement, teach ADA-informed safety principles, and help clients personalize home setups for stability and independence.
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Eval Tool

Neuro-FAST (Neurological Functional Assessment Subtests for Therapists) Subtest of Functional Memory

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
This subtest evaluates real-world memory skills using meaningful, collaborative tasks like remembering a meal order, following through on a plan, or recalling medication details. Use it to identify functional goals, track progress over time, and help patients rebuild confidence in remembering what matters most.
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Therapy Activity

Animal Shelter Data Entry Activity

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AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsBrain InjuryProgressive Neurological ConditionsStroke
This functional data entry activity helps clients preparing to return to work practice organization, attention, and self-monitoring within a realistic context. Use it to explore effective strategies for managing distractions, fatigue, and task complexity while building confidence and insight into work-related cognitive demands.
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Handout

Basic Anatomy: The Swallow

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This visual breaks down the main structures involved in swallowing, showing how each part works together to move food safely from the mouth to the stomach. Use it in therapy to help clients visualize the swallow process and understand how therapy targets protect the airway and improve safety.
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Handout

Basic Anatomy: The Voice

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AdultSLPVoice
This visual guide breaks down the key structures involved in voice production using clear, simple language that helps clients understand how the larynx works. Use it in therapy to support education about vocal function, disorders, or recovery after injury or surgery.
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Therapy Activity

Very Basic Acute Care AAC Boards

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AdultSLPAphasiaBrain InjuryStroke
A simple, step-by-step AAC tool for acute care settings that supports communication even with significant cognitive or motor impairments. Start with basic yes/no responses and gradually introduce additional choices as patients’ alertness, endurance, and communication skills improve.
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Clinical Reference Therapy Activity

Real-Life Problem Solving: Redefining Executive Function Support for Junior High Students

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive Function
This guide helps therapists move beyond workbook-style executive function activities by engaging junior high students in real-world reflection about how they actually plan, organize, and problem-solve. It provides concrete language, conversation frameworks, and mindset shifts to create psychological safety, reduce shame, and build genuine self-understanding and advocacy.
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Handout

What Kids Learn When They’re Bored

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage Development
This handout helps parents understand the developmental value of boredom during everyday moments like waiting in line or riding in the car. It offers gentle language you can use to reframe screen-free time as an opportunity for kids to build self-regulation, creativity, and curiosity.
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Handout

Helping Kids Feel Ready: The Power of Priming

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PediatricOTSLPExecutive FunctionLanguage DevelopmentSensory
This one-page parent handout introduces the concept of priming, which helps kids anticipate what’s coming next through stories, videos, or conversation. Use this to support families who often feel caught off guard by their child’s big reactions in new situations.
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Handout

Supporting Your Child’s Healthy Relationship With Food: A Guide for Parents Navigating Feeding Challenges

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PediatricOTSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout helps parents understand how to foster a positive, trusting relationship with food, especially when feeding challenges make mealtimes stressful. Use it to guide conversations about responsive feeding, reduce mealtime pressure, and provide language that supports autonomy and body awareness.
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Handout

Handling Toddler Aggression

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PediatricOTSLPLanguage Development
This handout helps parents understand and respond to toddler aggression through calm boundary setting and supportive communication. Use it to coach families on preventing power struggles, teaching emotional regulation, and fostering connection, especially for children with limited speech or developmental differences.
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Therapy Activity

How to Follow and Listen to Apple Podcasts on an iPhone or iPad

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStrokeVision
Help clients with low vision access meaningful content by teaching them how to find, subscribe, and play podcasts on Apple Podcasts using their iPhone or iPad. This step-by-step resource gives you a simple, clear tool to support independence.
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Handout

Community Resources After Rehab

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AdultOTSLPAgingAphasiaBrain InjuryCaregiver SupportsDementiaHealth Management and Self AdvocacyProgressive Neurological ConditionsSpinal Cord InjuryStroke
Help patients bridge the gap from rehab to real life with our Community Resource Page. This customizable handout lets you provide clear, personalized contacts for local services, making discharge smoother and follow-up support more accessible.
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Handout

Ambiguous Loss and Dementia

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AdultOTSLPCaregiver SupportsDementia
This handout introduces the concept of ambiguous loss in dementia and offers families practical rituals to honor grief while their loved one is still alive. Therapists can use it to validate caregiver emotions, reduce isolation, and guide families toward meaningful connection in the face of change.
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Handout

Centers for Independent Living (CILs)

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AdultOTSLPHealth Management and Self AdvocacySpinal Cord InjuryStroke
This handout introduces clients to Centers for Independent Living (CILs), explaining what they are, what services they offer, and how to connect with a local center. Therapists can use it to empower clients with disabilities to access free, nationwide resources that support independence and community participation. (U.S.-based information).
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Handout

Adaptive Equipment Decision Guide: Dressing & Self-Care

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AdultOTADLs/IADLsAgingCaregiver SupportsChronic PainSpinal Cord InjuryStroke
Help your patients identify barriers to dressing, bathing, toileting, and grooming with this practical adaptive equipment guide. This compilation of one-page handouts offers clear safety checks, simple strategies, and tool recommendations you can review together in therapy and send home for continued practice.
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Handout

Large Print Basic Swallow Precautions (9 Languages)

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This large-print handout outlines five essential dysphagia precautions in clear, simple language with translations in 10 languages. Share it directly with patients and caregivers to reinforce safe swallowing strategies across settings. Includes English, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Vietnamese, Russian, Arabic, Somali, French, Tagolog, and Japanese.
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Clinical Reference Handout

How Alcohol Affects the Brain

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
This handout explains in simple terms how alcohol affects brain structures and thinking skills, using recent research to clear up confusion about “safe” drinking levels. Use it to guide discussions with patients about recovery, cognition, and practical choices around alcohol use.
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Therapy Activity

6 Weekly Planner Templates

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
These six weekly planners are practical tools to target planning and organization during neuro rehab sessions. With multiple designs to choose from, you can match the format that best fits each patient’s needs and style.
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Handout

Broca’s Aphasia: The Basics

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AdultSLPAphasia
This handout gives patients and families a clear, one-page overview of Broca’s aphasia. Use it to support education, guide discussion, and reinforce communication strategies.
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