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Quick Informal Assessment: Reading Comprehension

January 4, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This quick, informal assessment allows therapists to get a quick snapshot of single-word, sentence-level, and short and long paragraph level reading comprehension abilities. Does not require any additional materials to complete.
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Picture Prompts for Written Narrative Task

January 3, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This written narrative session task requires the patient to view various pictures and write a description of what is happening. If a patient needs more prompts, some visual cues are provided.
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Phonological Components Analysis

January 3, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Phonological components analysis (PCA) is a type of treatment for anomia. PCA is a phonology-based treatment that is related to speech sounds, fundamental components of language. This material provides the goal of PCA, research supporting PCA, and a diagram/the steps for completing PCA.
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Oral Reading for Language in Aphasia (ORLA)

January 1, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Oral Reading for Language in Aphasia (ORLA) is a treatment created to target reading comprehension in people with aphasia; however, it has also been shown to improve oral expression, auditory comprehension, and written expression skills, and suprasegmental features of speech, including intonation and prosody. This material explains what type of aphasia benefits from ORLA and how ORLA can be adapted for different severity levels, prerequisites, and completion steps.
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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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Quick, Informal Assessment of Prosody

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Assessment of motor speech disorders can be lengthy as it should include obtaining case history, assessing a patient’s level of awareness, non-speech examination, speech production examination, as well as determining if there are comorbidities. This material provides a way to assess the characteristics of prosody.
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Memory Book Template

December 30, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This material is a memory book template that can be printed and used for multiple patients in different settings.  A variety of pages are provided to be able to choose and create a memory book that is most functional for your patient.
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