Hello SLPs and colleagues! Today I am introducing a new series: The “Real Life Speech Therapy” series will focus on activity and participation of specific tasks, with tools for the everyday SLP to use across assessment, goal-setting, therapy, external language and cognitive supports, and home program.

If you’ve ever finished a worksheet, card game, or another task in therapy and wondered to yourself, “How did this task help my patient function better this week?”, this series is for you.

First up in the Real Life Speech Therapy series: Medication Management!

Using a person-centered focus not only fulfills best practices across general healthcare trends, but it is also a best practice within our own speech pathology research. Best practices show therapy needs to be relevant, in-context, person-centered, and making improvements in everyday life.  Did you know that for both language and cognition skills, practicing skills in context is recommended for carryover to everyday use? That means we need to move away from generic worksheets and instead focus on language and cognitive skills and strategies that will be used in someone’s everyday life.

In an effort to make functional, person-centered care easy for the everyday SLP, I have started to make packets of printables that can be implemented immediately for a person-centered focus from assessment and goal-setting to therapy and home programs.

The 15-page Medication Management: Real Life Speech Therapy packet is full of printables you can use immediately to focus on functional improvements:

–Assessment Checklist to quickly identify skills needed for medication management

–Functional Goal-Setting Examples (13 specific to medication management)

–Therapy Tasks (25+ ideas to use in therapy, using medication management as a real life tool to challenge various cognitive-communication skills in isolation and in-context).

–External supports for language and cognition specific to the task of medication management (Think printables for Medication Lists, etc!)

–Functional Home Program Template

 

Sleep better tonight knowing you are providing person-centered care! All references included in packet so you can show evidence to your colleagues. Click here to purchase the Medication Management Packet.

 

The Real Life Speech Therapy Series will explore other activities, topics, and evidence going forward. If you want these ideas right in your inbox, sign up for email updates below.