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Academic Routines for Children with ADHD

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Children diagnosed with ADHD may experience challenges within their school day that can contribute to diminished academic success, inattentiveness, and feelings of frustration. This tool includes self-esteem, and calming and attention strategies that parents, educators, and therapists can use during academic routines with their children.
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IDDSI Level 5 – Minced and Moist

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This resource provides information for patients and their caregivers on this consistency’s characteristics, the reasons for recommendation/need for this consistency, ways to test it at home, and helpful recommendations for preparation.
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Health Literacy and Providing Education

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
All individuals have the right to access and understand the information provided by their healthcare team to make appropriate decisions and actions. This resource includes information on assessing health literacy, providing adequate education, and assessing an individual’s understanding.
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Acute/Post-Acute Memory Needs Assessment

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Impairment in memory and self-awareness skills are common following brain injury and/or prolonged hospitalization. This material provides questions related to acute/post-acute settings to determine a patient’s memory needs. This material can be used to assess self-awareness of memory deficits and guide discussion about external aids/internal strategies to help compensate for these difficulties.
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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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Creating Patient-Centered Dysphagia Goals using the SMART Framework

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This resource is not a generic list of dysphagia goals. Instead, it’s a guide to help with the critical thinking and patient collaboration necessary to identify meaningful dysphagia goals. Some examples are provided, but clinicians and patients are encouraged to use the SMART framework to support patient-centered goals.
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Medication Management Evaluation

December 31, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This resource provides clinicians with evidence-based tools to use during treatment sessions and strategies to assist with increasing medication adherence.
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Quilt Activity for Visual Perceptual Skills

December 31, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This activity can be used as an intervention to target a variety of visual perceptual skills, attention, and fine motor skills. There are three graded options in order to increase the challenge as the patient progresses.
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