Attention and memory impairments are common cognitive deficits following brain injury. This resource describes how these two skills relate and the three stages of memory, encoding, storage, and retrieval.
These three tasks challenge awareness of both the right and left sides of a page, alternating attention as needed, with all text designed to be appropriate for low-vision patients.
This resource looks at the principles of Universal Design from a therapy practitioner lens to improve understanding of how accessibility can affect independence and safety.
The supraglottic swallow maneuver requires a person to voluntarily close his/her vocal folds to add an extra layer of protection from aspiration. This material provides information regarding who should use this maneuver, the rationale, prerequisites, and instructions to complete this maneuver.
This handout is based on the course: Using The Science of Habits To Promote Healthy Behaviors Across Practice Settings, presented by John Rider, PhD, OTR/L, MSCS, CEAS. Help clients form new habits to bring new levels of meaningful, person-centered therapy to your clinical practice with this handout.
This handout describes how SLPs can address changes with speech, language, cognition/thinking, memory, voice, swallowing, reading, writing, listening, and the need for assistive communication technology and/or devices in the context of neurological disorders.