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I have a new blog post and handout to share. The blog post expands on my latest YouTube video, and the handout is a clinician cheat sheet.

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💡 Under "Diverse Voices," you'll find a woman with ALS demonstrating the LifeVac (tool to help in choking situations).
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​✨ Under "Interesting, Useful, or Fun," you'll find:

- Free dementia resources (super useful for family and clinicians).
- Recipe videos for people with cognitive or physical limitations.
- Open access tool to assess apraxia of speech secondary to neurological injury/disease.

Feel free to reply to this email with any suggestions or comments!
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You may be interested in these courses:

• The Basics of Voice Therapy: Adding to Your Toolbox - Adam T. Lloyd
• Laryngeal Dystonia Part 2: Medical and Behavioral Treatment - Maurice E. Goodwin & Christie DeLuca
• The Role of the SLP in Persistent Postconcussion Syndrome Management - Lauren Schwabish

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New EST blog post

Learn How to Use the Colorado Motor Speech Framework - I include more information here than I did in my short video.

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• 8 tips for using the CMSF - This is a clinician cheat-sheet with 8 tips for using the CMSF.

💡 Diverse Voices

I'm intentionally seeking out new voices that differ from me in some way. Reply to this email with your suggestions for future newsletters! ​
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Brooke Eby is "just a gal with ALS." She has 327k followers on Instagram (@limpbroozkit), where she shares honest and humorous updates on her life.

Here, Brooke's dad demonstrates the Life Vac on her. It's a device that can help in a choking situation. (From her Insta profile: https://hoo.be/limpbroozkit)

✨ Interesting, Useful, or Fun

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(1) If you know someone with dementia (or work with this population), check out Teepa Snow's free resources. There is the GEMS poster, dementia cue cards, and resource cards. Lots of great information here! Their goal is to help families and clinicians focus on remaining strengths rather than focusing on deficits.
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(2) OTs, SLPs, and people who cook with cognitive or physical limitations may really appreciate Epicurious Expeditions on YouTube. She shows how to make a wide-variety of food using adaptive strategies and simple equipment. (She has a series for disability-friendly cooking.) Check out this video on disability-friendly chicken and dumplings in the crock pot.
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(3) The Apraxia of Speech Rating Scale is open-access. The authors later clarified that we don't need to use an exact count, but can base our ratings on clinical judgment. I learned about the later publication from The Informed SLP, which is a gold mine of information. (Not an affiliate link.)

Thanks for reading!
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Stay safe and be well,

Lisa
(she/her/hers)