Adult resources

1,838 printable resources for Adult: patient and caregiver education handouts, therapy materials, clinical references and evaluation tools for speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists and physical therapists. Written and reviewed by practicing clinicians, ready to print, and included in a Therapy Insights membership.

Therapy Activity

Deductive Reasoning: Storage Area

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Practicing some cognitive strategies in therapy? Put them to work with this deductive reasoning challenge.
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Clinical Reference

SLP’s Role in Determining Patient Decision-Making Capacity

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This material provides information on how SLPs are trained and qualified to play a role in determining a person’s decision-making capacity.
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Handout

Spaced Retrieval

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This material describes the spaced-retrieval memory technique and how to complete it.
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Help Me Tell You What I Want: Decisional Capacity, Neurogenic Speech and Language Impairments, and the Law (2018)

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The article explained two terms, competence and decisional capacity, and how they are often mistakenly used interchangeably. Competence is the formal court adjudication regarding a person’s right to decide for themselves. Decisional capacity is the working, practical extralegal clinical judgment about a person’s ability to make autonomous choices about a specific matter during a particular […]
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Pilot Study on Activities of Daily Living Limitations in Adults With Hemianopsia (2009)

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The study used a convenience sample of adults referred to outpatient low-vision rehabilitation. Stroke was the documented cause of visual deficit for all participants except one who had sustained a brain tumor. All participants had homonymous hemianopsia or quadrantanopsia, and all but one lived in their own homes. Semi-structured interviews demonstrated that participants identified personal […]
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Drooling Rating Scales in Parkinson’s disease: A Systematic Review (2021)

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Various measurement tools are used in clinical practice and research. There are clinician-based outcome measures tools (ClinROMs), patient-reported outcome measures tools (PROMs), or caregiver-reported outcome measures tools (CROMs). This systematic review found six scales for drooling rating; however, only three were designed for PwP. It was also determined that terms were used interchangeably, including drooling, […]
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Handout

Medication Swallow Strategies for People with Dysphagia

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A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down! Unless you have dysphagia! Here are some other ideas to consider when establishing a safe plan for PO intake of meds.
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Clinical Reference

Saliva Anatomy and Function

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This resource helps explain the anatomy and function of saliva and how it supports swallowing, digestion, and oral health. Use it to connect symptoms like dry mouth or excess saliva to underlying conditions and improve patient understanding of dysphagia-related challenges. Video on how to use this resource:
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Clinical Reference

Understanding Interferential Current

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This document outlines what IFC is and how it works so you can decide if it will benefit your patients.
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