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Working Memory Practice

December 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
This activity allows for the practice of this everyday skill and can help train the use of strategies if needed.
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Laundry Visual Checklist

November 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
This material provides simple pictures and instructions to support those with cognitive deficits with completing laundry tasks.
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Working Memory and Adaptive Strategies

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Working memory is an essential part of everyday short term memory. Finding strategies for adapting to the loss of this executive function can mitigate declines associated with early stage dementia and improve independence with completion of everyday skills.
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Weekly Memory Journal

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
Improve carry-over and compensate for memory impairments with this weekly memory journal. Includes space for physical, occupational, and speech therapists to write down daily therapy activities, progress, and recommendations.
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Visual Aids for Toe-Touch Weight Bearing and Non-Weight Bearing (TTWB/NWB) Precautions

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
It is often difficult for a client to remember to follow weight bearing precautions after a fracture or surgery, especially if they have a memory impairment. This customizable clinical resource is a set of TTWB/NWB visual aids to use as a reminder for your clients and their caregivers. Use of a visual aid is a part of the delivery of skilled therapy services, and it can improve outcomes, safety, and carryover during healing.
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Types of Memory

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
The handout helps increase insight into the way that the brain creates and stores memory and how targeted functional therapy can optimize each type of memory.
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Three Stages of Creating a New Memory

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.
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.
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