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Reading Comprehension Sequencing Task

January 5, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This three-page task includes 4-step, 5-step, and 6-step written instructions to challenge patients’ reading comprehension skills.
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Quick Informal Assessment: Reading Comprehension

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This quick, informal assessment allows therapists to get a quick snapshot of single-word, sentence-level, and short and long paragraph level reading comprehension abilities. Does not require any additional materials to complete.
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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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Pseudobulbar Affect

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is a form of emotional lability that is observed as sudden, frequent, and unpredictable outbursts of crying and/or laughing. This handout can help educate patients and their caregivers about what it is, what it isn’t, areas of the brain that cause it, what to do if a person has it, and how to access a lability scale that can be helpful when referring.
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Post Traumatic Amnesia

January 3, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This handout helps explain what PTA is, describes characteristics of a person in a PTA state, length of PTA state with a correlation of severity of brain injury, and ways to help a person in a PTA state.
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Post Concussion Syndrome

January 3, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This handout explains the symptoms, possible causes and risk factors, and prevention suggestions.
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Personalized Visual Map of Brain Injury Changes

January 3, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Every brain injury is unique. Many patients and care partners may become overwhelmed with trying to understand what was damaged from the brain injury. This visual material helps patient and care partners better understand what changes are being addressed in therapy and what parts of the brain are involved.
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OT Discharge Recommendations Form

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
A simple way for practitioners to summarize all discharge recommendations. Improves interdisciplinary communication, streamlines discharge planning, and educates patients and families. Includes home evaluation findings, home care service recommendations, community resources, equipment, supervision recommendations, and more.
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Organizing a Calendar

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This schedule organization task requires a person to use a variety of executive function skills including good initiation, visual scanning, divided visual attention, planning/organization, reading comprehension, written expression, and problem solving/reasoning.
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