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Caregiver Resources

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AdultOTSLPCaregiver Supports
Caregivers are often overwhelmed by their loved ones’ illness or injury and all the new terminology that is thrown at them by healthcare staff. It is important to remember that they could benefit from education and resources to help reduce their burden of care. This material provides a list of resources for caregivers to help them transition to their new role more comfortably.
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Handout

Caregiver Management Plan Outline

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AdultOTSLPCaregiver Supports
All caregivers need to take care of themselves. This means leaving loved ones in the care of other family, friends, or professionals. This caregiver management plan outline guides caregivers when creating a comprehensive written plan to pass on to alternative care providers. May be completed within a structured therapy session with clinical guidance or individually by patients and their families.
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Handout

Cardiovascular Disease and Cognition

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AdultOTSLPCardiovascular Disease
This handout explains how cardiovascular disease can cause functionally debilitating changes in cognition. These changes in cognition can negatively affect independence, productivity, and quality of life.
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Clinical Reference

Cardiac Medications Reference

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AdultOTSLPCardiovascular Disease
Reference table of cardiac medications for clinicians to use during chart reviews, provide patient education, and be aware of possible side effects during therapy process.
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Therapy Material

Car Buying Activity

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Many cognitive skills go into buying a car. This executive function activity will instruct a person to compare miles per gallon and other features of various vehicles to a wish list to determine which vehicle is the best fit to purchase.
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Therapy Material

Calculating Miles Between National Parks to Plan Trip

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This therapy activity targets numerical problem solving instructs the person with a brain injury to calculate miles between national parks in the United States in order to determine which road trip to take.
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Building Receptive 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 receptive 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 receptive language goals outside of the therapy setting. This activity can be done at home or at a laundromat.
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Handout

Building Joint Attention in Toddlers

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
This handout features a family-friendly explanation of joint attention as well as practical strategies to improve joint attention skills.
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Breath Support & Control

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
Breath support is important for everyday functions such as: speaking, eating, exercising, and relaxing. This handout is designed for speech-language pathologists working with the pediatric population to address adequate breath support for these daily functions.
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Brain Injury Wallet Cards

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
These wallet-sized support cards can be used with communication partners or individuals from the community. They will help explain how a brain injury can affect the brain injury survivor with cognition-communication tasks.
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Handout

Brain Injury Resources

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This material provides a list of resources for people who have a brain injury and their caregivers. Resources include associations, companies, support groups, and websites.
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Handout

Brain Injury and Nutrition

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
People who have survived brain injury require higher nutritional intake during recovery. This handout describes why and outlines some of the barriers and strategies to addressing these needs. Appropriate for staff, caregivers, patients, and family.
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Brain Injuries and Headaches

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
This handout features a simple pain scale and outlines the use of the rule of 2 in order to reduce the frequency of headaches s/p TBI.
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Therapy Material

Brain Craft

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryHealth Management and Self AdvocacyStrokeVision
This leisure-based intervention addresses bilateral fine motor coordination, executive functioning, attention, and visual perceptual skills while providing brain education and encouraging creativity. It is a fun way to work with clients who have survived brain injury or stroke, while addressing important functional skills. This activity has graded options for implementation based on time constraints or functional ability of the client.
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Handout

Bowel and Bladder Function After Spinal Cord Injury

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AdultOTBowel/BladderSpinal Cord Injury
This resource is for a patient who is struggling to develop a bowel program, bladder training program, or who needs more information on voiding dysfunction after an injury. 
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Handout

Bottle Feeding

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Based on the course Bottle Feeding in the Outpatient Setting by Mallory L. Millet, MS, SLP, IFS, CIMI-II, this handout is designed for parents and caregivers who are struggling with bottle feeding and looking for answers. The handout starts with the foundational knowledge that there are no regulations for bottle manufacturers.
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Eval Tool Therapy Material

Borg Scale: Rating of Perceived Exertion

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AdultOTSports and Exercise
Based on the Borg scale and numbered 1-10, the 1-page visual provides easy-to-read, easy-to-report exertion scale for patients to report their efforts.
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Handout

Books to Practice Speech Sounds

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
This handout provides book recommendations to help children practice specific sounds, including /b/, /ch/, /g/, /r/, /d/, /f/, /k/, /s/, and vowel sounds.
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Therapy Material

Book Activities Pack: Who Wants a Tortoise?

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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

Book Activities Pack: Unicorns in Uniforms

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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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