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Disorders of the Pharyngeal Stage of Swallowing

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout provides a table of disorders that may be observed during the pharyngeal stage of swallowing during an objective swallowing evaluation, the cause behind those observations, and more information related to each disorder.
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Disorders of the Oral Stage of Swallowing

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout provides a table of disorders that may be observed during the oral stage of swallowing during a bedside swallow evaluation or objective swallowing evaluation and the cause behind those observations.
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Discourse Analysis and Aphasia Treatment

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout provides a visual of the Aphasia Institute’s Life Participation Approach to Aphasia and lists analyses that do and do not require transcription from the AphasiaBank website.
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Differential Diagnosis: Presbyphagia

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout is for SLPs performing differential diagnosis assessments for disease-related swallow impairments vs age-related swallow impairments. The handout describes the oral and motor symptomatic differences for accurate differential diagnosis.
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Differential Diagnosis: Dizziness

December 24, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout is designed for therapists providing differential diagnosis information for patients experiencing dizziness. The handout compares benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) to central nervous system nystagmus and includes a comprehensive list of differential diagnosis points, including time before symptoms start after position change, duration of symptoms, direction of nystagmus, symptoms, nausea, likelihood that symptoms […]
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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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