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Handout

Autonomic Dysreflexia Emergency Cards

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AdultOTSpinal Cord Injury
Many people, including emergency departments and medical personnel, may be unfamiliar with autonomic dysreflexia. This handout provides a template to create an alert card explaining autonomic dysreflexia and an emergency medical information card providing important client information for anyone with a spinal cord injury. This template can be used as an intervention activity to improve health literacy and emergency preparedness.
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Therapy Material

Automatic Speech Cards

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AdultSLPAphasia
This intervention visual features 4 pages of automatic speech visual cues, including popular song lyrics, the numbers 1-10, days of the week, and months of the year.
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Therapy Material

Auditory Comprehension Task: Following Directions with Pictures

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AdultSLPAphasia
This structured therapy task contains one page of high frequency words and one page of low frequency words, as well as a sheet of instructions for how to structure the therapy task in three levels of difficulty.
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Therapy Material

Attentive Reading Constrained Summarization (ARCS)

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AdultSLPAphasiaBrain Injury
Attentive Reading Constrained Summarization (ARCS) is a cognitive-linguistic treatment created to improve a person’s discourse through reading and summarization using specific constraints. This material provides information regarding the purpose, components, prerequisites and population, materials, and steps for completion.
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Therapy Material

Attention to Detail: A Proofreading Task

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AdultSLPBrain Injury
This intervention requires an individual to remember the directions, sustain attention to the task, alternate attention, and make judgments during this higher-level cognitive-linguistic task. (11th-grade reading level). The task challenges people to catch typos while also reading the material to answer content questions.
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Handout

At-Home Guide to Minimizing Bone Loss After Spinal Cord Injury

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AdultOTSpinal Cord Injury
This is a resource for individuals after spinal cord injury who would like to be proactive about managing their increased risk for osteoporosis. The document gives recommendations for prevention and management of bone loss through at home activities and appropriate personal behaviors.
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Eval Tool

Aspiration Precautions Communication Form

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AdultSLPDysphagia
This form is designed for speech-language pathologists in medical settings needing to communicate aspiration precautions to nursing, physician, therapy, and kitchen staff.
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Therapy Material

Articulation Progress Chart for Speech Therapy

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
Articulation progress chart for speech therapy: Sound, word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, and conversation. Students can track progress in speech therapy.
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Therapy Material

Articulation Intervention: Vocalic /r/ Warm-Up

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
This resource provides a concrete structure to point to and practice elongating vocalic /r/ sounds in order.
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Therapy Material

Articulation Activity: Building /ch/ and /sh/ Snowmen

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AdultSLPArticulation and Phonology
This activity features 6 fun snowmen with different /ch/ and /sh/ words on each part, have fun practicing sounds while building funky snowmen and placing them in a winter scene.
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Apps to Increase Independence After a Brain Injury

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AdultOTSLPBrain Injury
Phone and tablet apps can help increase independence with cognitive tasks after a brain injury. This list of apps addresses memory, medication management, diabetes management, money calculation, speech to text, spaced retrieval training, and time management. These apps can be trained by speech-language pathologists and other rehabilitation specialists in rehabilitation settings to address functional cognitive-linguistic goals.
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Handout

Approaches to Introducing Solids: Baby-Led Weaning, Purees, and BLISS Method

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This parent-friendly handout provides an overview of approaches to introducing solids. Methods included are baby-led weaning (BLW), purees/traditional baby food, and baby-led introduction to solids (BLISS). This is a useful tool for early intervention, outpatient clinics, or hospital settings.
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Clinical Reference

Applying Makeup

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AdultOTADLs/IADLsBrain InjuryStroke
This resource covers adaptive equipment and compensatory strategies that can be used in order to improve independence with applying makeup.
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Apple Accessibility Features for Cognitive Impairments

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AdultOTSLPAgingBrain InjuryStroke
Technology can be a wonderful thing, but oftentimes a person does not know how to make technology more accessible for a person with impairments. This material provides details regarding accessibility features and accommodations for a person with cognitive impairments using Apple devices and includes instructions for setup.
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Handout

Aphasia: The Basics

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AdultSLPAphasia
Aphasia can be a confusing term for many to understand. Aphasia is a general term used when a person has trouble with four different parts that make up our language abilities. This handout will explain the umbrella term “aphasia” and break down the four parts of the language abilities that a speech therapist assesses after a person has a stroke or brain injury.
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Handout

Aphasia Therapy: How to Practice at Home

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AdultSLPAphasia
This handout lists several specific challenges to do in order to target language at the word and phrase/sentence levels with ideas for targeting reading and writing.
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Handout

Aphasia Resources

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AdultSLPAphasia
This handout describes national aphasia resources that anyone can access and find connection and meaning within.
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Clinical Reference

Anticipatory vs Reactive Balance Control

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AdultOTBalance/Vestibular/Falls
This handout highlights reactive versus anticipatory balance control. Interventions are provided to address impairments in both skills and progress with challenges to the sensory systems of balance.
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