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Quick Eval Checklist for SLPs

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This 1-page note-sheet captures information required for initial evaluation of someone entering a rehab facility, including basic information about swallowing, speech/language, voice, and cognitive abilities.
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Picture Prompts for Written Narrative Task

January 3, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This written narrative session task requires the patient to view various pictures and write a description of what is happening. If a patient needs more prompts, some visual cues are provided.
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Phonological Components Analysis

January 3, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Phonological components analysis (PCA) is a type of treatment for anomia. PCA is a phonology-based treatment that is related to speech sounds, fundamental components of language. This material provides the goal of PCA, research supporting PCA, and a diagram/the steps for completing PCA.
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Oral Reading for Language in Aphasia (ORLA)

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Oral Reading for Language in Aphasia (ORLA) is a treatment created to target reading comprehension in people with aphasia; however, it has also been shown to improve oral expression, auditory comprehension, and written expression skills, and suprasegmental features of speech, including intonation and prosody. This material explains what type of aphasia benefits from ORLA and how ORLA can be adapted for different severity levels, prerequisites, and completion steps.
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Oral Mech Exam Visual Cards

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Completing an oral mech exam with someone who is deaf or hard of hearing, or while wearing a mask or other PPE can be a challenge. These 3×5 inch cards can be cut, laminated, and used to guide the patient through the steps of the oral mech exam. Clean thoroughly between use, or print a fresh copy for each test.
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Oral Mech Exam

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
A quick reference guide for SLPs conducting oral mech exams, including cues for the physical exam, voice observation, articulation, and nasality. Includes specifics on how to assess both sensory and motor functions of the cranial nerves.
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Voicemail Inferencing Task

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Listening to voicemails can target a person’s attention, auditory short-term memory, inferences abilities. The patient can listen to the recordings or the SLP reading the transcripts for each voicemail during this task. Then they can answer the comprehension questions to target auditory short-term memory recall and make inferences with the given information.
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Quick, Informal Assessment of Prosody

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Assessment of motor speech disorders can be lengthy as it should include obtaining case history, assessing a patient’s level of awareness, non-speech examination, speech production examination, as well as determining if there are comorbidities. This material provides a way to assess the characteristics of prosody.
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