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Handout

Food Textures/Consistencies with Examples (Pediatric Feeding Therapy)

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handy reference is helpful in understanding differences in food textures and consistencies when working with children on feeding therapy goals. The terms used for various textures can be used at mealtimes/during therapy to help children describe what they see, feel, and taste!
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Therapy Activity

Food Group Sorting Activity

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
Feeding therapy often targets goals to increase a child’s comprehension and knowledge of food groups and nutrition based on their age. Visuals help children understand concepts better, and examining images of food may improve tolerance to interacting with the actual food. This activity offers an opportunity to learn about food groups and specific items in each group to promote balanced eating.
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Therapy Activity

Food Diary for Home Carryover

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
When a child participates in feeding therapy, carryover to the home and other settings is imperative for generalization (i.e., using skills outside of therapy). Tracking what is offered to the child and what the child accepts is a great place to start using this handy diary.
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Handout

Food Chaining Approach to Picky Eating

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This handout describes and visualizes the food chaining approach to addressing picky eating.
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Handout

Food and Liquid Intake and Dementia

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AdultSLPDementiaDysphagia
This handout is packed with functional strategies to improve food and liquid intake on a daily basis for people with dementia. Also includes information on how speech-language pathologists play a role in addressing feeding and swallowing issues at all stages of dementia.
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Therapy Activity

Following Directions Task (Using iPad or iPhone)

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AdultSLPAphasiaBrain InjuryStroke
This structured therapy task targets auditory comprehension and the ability to follow directions through a series of verbal instructions that walks a patient through completing various functional tasks on an iPad or iPhone.
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Handout

Fitting Your Bike

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AdultOTSports and Exercise
Cycling has grown in popularity significantly over the last several decades. The repetitive motions associated with biking can easily cause pain over time. This handout will provide a starting point for an appropriate bicycle fit.
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Therapy Activity

Finding Medication Box Errors Set #2

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryHealth Management and Self AdvocacyStroke
For this activity, the patient will need to read the directions for each medication to know how often it should be taken. Then the patient will need to notice errors with the medication box which requires good attention and visual reasoning. This task could also be used for a visual scanning activity. Features realistic medication labels and 2 different pages with different challenges.
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Therapy Activity

Finding Housing: Navigating Housing Ads

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AdultOTSLPBrain InjuryStroke
Many cognitive-linguistic skills are used when determining the best choice for housing when a person is looking at the market available. In this housing ad activity, a person must determine which type of housing to pick based on specific preferences the buyer has given as well as answer questions related to compromises that have to be made.
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Therapy Activity

Find The Word Picture Scene (Teletherapy Friendly)

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
This fun activity helps to keep the child engaged when practicing speech sounds. Pointing to and naming pictures in this scene is also a great way to work on vocabulary. Includes /s/, /l/, and /r/ sounds.
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Therapy Activity

Find the Hidden /R/ Activity

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
This seek-and-find articulation activity targets /r/ in all positions of words and can be used in structured speech therapy sessions or for daily practice carryover at home with parents and caregivers.
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Therapy Activity

Financial Management – Bills and Budget Tracking

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AdultOTSLPADLs/IADLsBrain InjuryStroke
This material can be used as an aid to help a person with cognitive deficits play a more active role in their finances along with incorporating other aids/tools for reminders.
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Therapy Activity

Financial Management for Cognitive Rehabilitation

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AdultSLPADLs/IADLsBrain InjuryStroke
This task is designed to recreate the common scenario of having a stash of receipts laid out on the table ready to be balanced into a financial ledger.
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Therapy Activity

Final Consonant Deletion Drill Practice

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PediatricSLPArticulation and Phonology
Use the picture cards to help children with low intelligibility due to the phonological process of deleting final consonants. Includes 2 pages with a total of 30 images for structured therapy within session.
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Therapy Activity

Figurative Language Pack

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PediatricSLPLanguage Development
The activities in this pack can be used with middle and high school aged children who need support in improving social/pragmatic language skills, and higher level language skills. Page one features some classic idioms with engaging graphics. Page 2 provides an opportunity to discuss facial expressions/vocabulary as tied to emojies, while the final 2 pages challenge kids to look at real photos of people and describe the emotions and infer possible situations that are occurring in the photos.
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Handout

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)

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PediatricSLPLanguage DevelopmentPediatric Brain Injury
This handout accompanies the course: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: From Identification to Intervention. The handout covers fetal alcohol syndrome, (FAS), alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder (ARND), alcohol-related birth defects (ARBD), and neurodevelopmental disorder associated with prenatal alcohol exposure (ND-PAE) diagnoses. This handout also outlines FASD quick facts, therapy supports for children with FASD, strengths of children with FASD, challenges for children with FASD, and other common behavioral characteristics seen in children with FASD.
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Handout

Pediatric FEES vs. MBS

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This resource is a checklist that clinicians may use to help determine which swallow instrumentation is best suitable for their patients. Clinicians may also use this as a resource when inservicing other disciplines on swallow instrumentation, or when communicating with patients and families about assessment options.
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Therapy Activity

Feeding Therapy Visual: Eating Sequence and Reward

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This visual provides a clear pathway from taking a bite, chewing the food, and swallowing, with a blank space to put a special reward that the child is working towards during therapy or at home.
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Feeding Positioning for Children with Neurological Impairments

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PediatricSLPFeeding and SwallowingPediatric Brain Injury
This handout visually describes the proper positioning for comfort/safety, trunk/abdomen/back, table/tray, head/neck, and pelvis/legs/feet specifically for children with neurological disorders. This handout is targeted for therapists, parents, and caregivers.
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Therapy Activity

Feeding Intervention: Messy Play + Recipe

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PediatricSLPFeeding and Swallowing
This intervention handout includes information regarding how messy play can help address sensory issues related to picky eating and includes a basic recipe for play-dough that can be used in sensory play activities.
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