stroke Archives – Page 18 of 30

Voicemail Task #2: Planning, Organizing, and Prioritizing Activities for a Week Based on Six Voicemails

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This activity is a real-world scenario where patients are provided with six audio and/or written voicemail messages and a weekly calendar in which they have to plan and organize their week. Decisions on which day to schedule an activity may have to be made based on other activities already scheduled.

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Visual-Motor Integration Activity

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This table-top activity is a fun way to target this important skill. Alternative treatment options and graded modifications for implementing the task are included.

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Visual Neglect (Hemispatial Inattention) vs. Visual Field Cut (Homonymous Hemianopsia)

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This handout explains the difference between visual neglect and visual field cut. It provides information about how they are different and ways to distinguish them. There are also some suggestions for treatment. Recommended for patients and their family to understand the difference between these two similar conditions with divergent treatment recommendations.

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Visual Closure Tasks

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

Visual closure skills are important for how we perceive our environment. This activity provides three methods for addressing visual closure deficits by having the patient match partial parts of an image to a whole, as well as select the correct partial piece of an image given multiple choices.

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Unilateral Neglect Task: Matching Pictures to Movie Titles

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

Features 9 pictures from classic movies with written movie titles. Cut out each box, place the pictures on the right side and the titles on the left. This task is designed to target bi-lateral visual attention for patients experiencing unilateral neglect.

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Understanding Spatial Relationships

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This therapy material allows the clinician to determine the patient’s accuracy with the visual-spatial relationships with these questions to locate target numbers among various shapes.

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Understanding and Explaining Test Scores with Use of a Bell Curve

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This resource provides education on terms related to testing, an area to discuss a patients’ strengths/weaknesses with them (or have them write their own for awareness), and a bell curve to explain results to patients and caregivers following evaluation.

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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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Types of Acquired Brain Injury

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This handout is targeted for patients, staff, and caregivers, and outlines five major causes of acquired brain injury, including strokes, tumors, infections, brain hemorrhage, and loss of oxygen.

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Toileting Schedules

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This handout provides education for patients and caregivers over the importance of using a toileting schedule, and the potential consequences of incontinence.

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