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Differential Diagnosis: Apraxia of Speech vs Aphasia with Phonemic Paraphasias

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Language impairments after brain injury can be difficult to tease out. In particular, apraxia of speech can often present in similar ways to aphasia with phonemic paraphasias. This clinical guide is meant to help speech-language pathologists more accurately diagnose these two impairments in order to better target treatment methods.
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Types of Naming

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
There are different ways to elicit a target word when a person has anomia or difficulty with word-finding. This handout provides a description of four different types of naming and a worksheet to target each type of naming.
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Descending Spinal Cord Tracts

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This document provides insights on the descending motor pathways and includes the voluntary motor pathways: the corticospinal tract, the corticobulbar tract, and the rubrospinal tract. Additionally, it includes the involuntary motor tracts: the vestibulospinal tract and the reticulospinal tract.
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Counseling in Rehabilitation

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.
When working as a therapist in rehabilitation, counseling will be a part of the job as the person you are working with is learning to cope with a life-changing diagnosis and a new normal. This material guides how to provide effective counseling, or purposeful conversation, by creating an empathetic environment and trust with four qualities: caring, self-awareness, observation, and active listening.
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Considerations When Creating a Feeding and Swallowing Clinical Team

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Based on the course Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing Clinic: Team Considerations for Implementation by Pam Holland, MA-CCC/SLP, BCS-S, this handout provides a list of considerations to consider when assembling an interdisciplinary feeding and swallowing clinical team.
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Considerations and Contraindications for Tracheostomy Weaning

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.
The decision to begin the tracheostomy weaning process is a complicated decision for the speech pathologist and the medical team. This handout provides a clinical judgement decision tree considerations, contraindications, and a guideline for the stages of the trach weaning process.
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Common Neurologic Medications

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This document highlights some of the most common neurologic medication types and provides insight on how those medications may affect treatment.
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Common Contraindications and Precautions

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Do you have trouble remembering all of the contraindications and precautions for treatments? Do you ever find an abnormal blood pressure or oxygen saturation level and question whether your initial treatment plan is still appropriate? This document provides a contraindication and precaution cheat to help guide clinician’s clinical reasoning.
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