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Hereditary Ataxias and Dsyphagia

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout describes what ataxia is, what its signs and symptoms are, and provides a description of treatment options.
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Good Vocal Hygiene Habits for Children

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout outlines three elements that contribute to overall vocal hygiene, including environment, hydration, and vocal rest. The handout is appropriate for staff, parents, and caregivers.
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Getting Through the Day with Energy to Spare

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout helps patients establish strategies to optimize energy throughout the day while completing ADLs. The handout is broken down into dressing, grooming/hygiene, and bathing/showering.
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GERD Precautions to Prevent Aspiration Pneumonia

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Handout featuring explanation of aspiration pneumonia as related to GERD as well as 8 specific strategies for reducing the symptoms of GERD and related risk of aspiration pneumonia. Designed for speech-language pathologists working with patients who have dysphagia exacerbated by GERD.
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General Swallow Precautions

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout helps ensure best practices when it comes to general aspiration precautions in the context of dysphagia. Many of these straight-forward strategies are frequently overlooked; this visual is meant to provide a visual reminder for everyone involved in the care and safety of someone experiencing dysphagia. Note that these are general precautions and are not meant to target any one particular dysphagia diagnosis. Specific strategies will need to be added for individual cases.
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Executive Functions

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This resource describes what executive functions are to educate patients and their caregivers. Includes information about attention, processing speed, regulation, awareness, initiation, response inhibition, self-monitoring, mental flexibility, organization, sequencing, working memory, and planning. Second page includes a list of assessments specifically designed for targeting executive functions.
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Emergent Awareness

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout is designed to help patients (and really, mostly their family and friends) understand the process of awareness and how it impacts recovery from brain injury.  The handout includes ways to assess emergent awareness as well as ways to improve emergent awareness. Part of our self awareness series.
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Dining Out with Dysphagia

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Living with dysphagia can make it difficult to eat out a restaurants or other people’s homes; however, this shouldn’t keep patients and their families from doing so. Mealtime is a significant part of the day for social interaction with family and friends This handout contains some ideas and tips to consider so that dining out […]
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