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Activities To Do with Kids with Hearing Loss

December 20, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout describes various activities to use with children who have some degree of hearing impairment. Designed for therapists, teachers, parents, and caregivers to spark conversation and ideas of how to provide opportunities for leadership, participation, and communication for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
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Activities Pack: Poodle Draws Doodles

December 20, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This book activities pack targets literacy skills, including print motivation and awareness, letter knowledge, vocabulary, phonological awareness, and narrative skills. Poodle loves to doodle everywhere – walls, doors, floors, no surface is safe! Poodle is soon in trouble. But could her alfresco drawing skills actually come in useful? This entertaining story for beginner readers has […]
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8 Parts of Speech

December 20, 2021 by Megan Berg.
8 parts of speech posters: verb, pronoun, noun, conjunction, preposition, adverb, adjective, and article.
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AAC Questionnaire

December 9, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This questionnaire is designed to assist parents, therapists, and teachers select the most important and meaningful vocabulary for children who are beginning to use an AAC system. This can be a great way to get parents and caregivers to participate in the programming process. 
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AAC Mini Simple Communication Board for Kids

December 9, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout is designed for speech-language pathologists working with kids on verbal and non-verbal communication using AAC. The simple board includes 18 icons for basic words as well as suggestions for how to incorporate the board into structured therapy sessions.
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A Visual Model of Cognition

December 9, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Based on Yehuda’s Ben-Yishay’s work on understanding cognitive rehabilitation, which has been carried forward by the work of Alan Baddeley’s research on working memory, this visual describes how cognition is a layered system, requiring the abilities to sustain attention, process this information in an efficient manner, recall this information, and then transform information into more […]
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5 Pocket-Sized Low Tech AAC Cards for People with Aphasia

December 9, 2021 by Megan Berg.
5 low-tech AAC cards designed for people who want a low-key, basic, pocketable communication tool. The five cards feature an alphabet board, basic words (nurse, doctor, bathroom, medications, glasses, shoes), emojis to communicate emotions, a visual pain scale, and yes/no card with communication strategies.
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5 Alternating Attention Tasks (No Language Required)

December 9, 2021 by Megan Berg.
These 5 alternating attention tasks require patients to alternate attention between the objects ordered at the top of the page and the objects randomly placed below. These tasks do not require the patient to read and may work for people who have aphasia or when there is a language barrier.
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10 Voice Commands for Voice Activated Systems

December 9, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout is designed for rehabilitation therapists working with people who no longer have the mobility or fine motor control to operate phones, computers, lights, blinds, etc. Using voice activated systems (such as the Amazon Echo or the Google Home), these patients can use voice commands to increase independence, reduce reliance on caregivers, and optimize […]
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