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Healthy Coping: Brief Behavioral Strategies for Clinicians and Patients

February 2, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Clinicians and patients equally struggle with stress and anxiety (among other mental health symptoms) that can impact energy, motivation, and, ultimately, therapeutic outcomes. There are several brief behavioral health interventions that actively target physiological and psychological symptoms of stress and anxiety that are simple, effective, straightforward to use, and easy to teach.
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Dysphagia: What Have We Learned So Far and What Do We Still Need to Investigate? (2021)

January 31, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a serious respiratory disorder that causes persistent airflow obstruction, inflammatory response, and systemic manifestation. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, COPD was projected to be the third leading cause of death internationally by 2021. This article reviewed various clinical questions about dysphagia and COPD with current research available.  The team wanted […]
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Counseling and Care Partner Training in Primary Progressive Aphasia (2021)

January 31, 2022 by Megan Berg.
There are three variants of primary progressive aphasia, and the SLP may be a part of the diagnosis process with the physician. The three variants include semantic (difficulties with confrontational naming and single-word comprehension), logopenic (impairment with word retrieval and phrase/sentence repetition), and nonfluent/agrammatic (agrammatism and/or apraxia of speech causing speech disfluencies.) Knowing the variant […]
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Apple Accessibility Features for Hearing Impairments

January 31, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Technology can be a wonderful thing, but often a person does not know how to make technology more accessible for a person with impairments. This material provides details regarding accessibility features and accommodations for a person with hearing impairments using Apple devices and includes instructions for setup.
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Basic Cheat Sheet for the use of Passy Muir Speaking Valve with Ventilation

January 31, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Working with the ventilation population can be initially daunting as a speech-language pathologist (SLP). This material provides a basic review of types of ventilation and ventilator settings that are important to know and understand before initiating Passy Muir speaking valve (PMV) trials. Furthermore, a review of the benefits of PMV use and collaboration with a respiratory therapist is provided.
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Football Numerical Problem Solving Activity

January 31, 2022 by Megan Berg.
When asking patients about their hobbies and interests to incorporate those when creating person-centered goals, a common response is “football.” This activity is made for those football lovers to target their numerical problem solving skills related to their favorite sport.
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How to Use the Reflux Symptom Index (RSI)

January 31, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This handout explains how laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) and gastroesophageal reflux (GERD) are similar and different. Then the patient can use the Reflux Symptoms Index, and the SLP will calculate the score. The SLP and patient can track the scores to see if the scores change over time with compensatory dysphagia strategies and/or the physician, including medications for symptom relief.
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Procedural Narrative Production Task

January 31, 2022 by Megan Berg.
The procedural narrative production activity is a higher-level verbal fluency task where the person is asked to explain how to complete an everyday activity or resolve a problem. There are charts with details for the SLP to consider when evaluating the procedural narrative production.
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Using Subthreshold Vibratory Stimulation During Poststroke Rehabilitation Therapy: A Case Series (2022)

January 31, 2022 by Megan Berg.
One approach to enhance motor recovery is using sensory stimulation as a therapy adjunct to facility changes in the primary motor cortex and associated motor output. A novel sensory stimulation was recently developed using a wearable wristband to apply subthreshold random-frequency vibratory stimulation to the paretic wrist during therapy. This stimulation does not interfere with […]
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Environmental Barriers and Housing Accessibility Problems for People with Parkinson’s Disease: A Three-Year Perspective (2021)

January 31, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This study was based on baseline and three-year follow-up data from the longitudinal cohort study Home and Health in People Ageing with Parkinson’s Disease. Data was collected through a self-administered survey and a home visit (including an interview, clinical assessments, and observations) with a total of 138 individuals with PD. The Housing Enabler instrument was […]
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