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Stealing Cookies in the Twenty-First Century: Measures of Spoken Narrative in Healthy Versus Speakers With Aphasia (2019)

December 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
The “Cookie Theft” picture from the BDAE has been widely used for a picture description task to analyze cognitive-linguistic factors of spoken language. These picture descriptions provide opportunities to capture deficits in language, social communication, spatial attention, and prosody. The BDAE has provided guidelines for identifying cognitive-linguistic deficits for individuals with Williams syndrome, primary progressive […]
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Motivational Interviewing for Rehabilitation Professionals

November 16, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
What’s a therapist to do when patients do not comply with treatment recommendations? In this course we explore the process of motivational interviewing as a way to improve the therapist-patient relationship, and ultimately patient outcomes. We discuss the perils of persuasion and automatic problem solving for our patients. We identify and develop skills for guiding […]
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Can I Go Back to Work? A Work Re-Entry Program in a Rehabilitation Setting

November 4, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
This course will provide information on the role of the multidisciplinary rehabilitation team in addressing return to work goals for individuals who have sustained traumatic brain injury, stroke, and spinal cord injury. Practical intervention strategies, job accommodations, and case examples will be discussed using Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals’ Work Re-entry Program as a model.
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Culturally Responsible Clinical Supervision

November 3, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Allied health professionals are trained to work with diverse clients. This course will outline barriers to culturally responsive supervision and discuss solutions. We will discuss characteristics of culturally responsive supervisors, provide methods for developing and incorporating these characteristics into clinical practice, and address individual biases utilizing clinical scenarios.
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An Introduction to Cultural Competemility in Speech-Language Pathology

November 2, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Cultural competemility is the marriage between cultural competency and cultural humility. This course will define “culture” as a concept, define the ethics of cultural competence, explain the difference between cultural competence and cultural humility, and identify ways cultural competence and cultural humility coincide within the context of providing speech-language pathology services.
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Vertebral Compression Fracture: What to Expect

November 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
This handout outlines what vertebral compression fractures are, what recovery looks like, and what to expect with treatment. Designed to be shared with people who have compression fractures.
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Build Your Own Home Exercise Program

November 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Therapists can be very particular about exercise. Do you ever find that you can’t find an exercise you want your patient to complete on standard HEP programs? Do you find yourself drawing exercises for patients on the back of scratch paper or sticky notes? This document provides an easy format that lets the therapist write and draw custom exercise plans in a professional way.
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Evidence-Based Practice for Parkinson’s Disease

November 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Do you have trouble writing evidence based goals for your patients with Parkinson’s disease? This document outlines recommended outcome measures and the scores that are necessary to demonstrate improvement. Use it as a quick reference to educate patients on their fall risk and performance relative to other individuals with Parkinson’s disease.
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Evidence-Based Practice for Multiple Sclerosis

November 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Do you have trouble writing evidence based goals for your patients with multiple sclerosis? This document outlines recommended outcome measures and the scores that are necessary to demonstrate improvement. Use it as a quick reference to educate patients on their fall risk and performance relative to other individuals with multiple sclerosis.
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