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🧠 Resource Round-Up: free tools, courses, PROMs, and more

Published about 19 hours agoΒ β€’Β 2 min read

It's time for another resource round-up!

Here are some of the most exciting things I've found related to medical speech-language pathology lately – plus a few that my team has created for you.

1. πŸ₯ Acute Care FOURC: UNC's Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders developed an Acute Care adaptation of their FOURC model – a free, collaborative framework for setting life-participation goals. Downloads include a goal rating scale, documentation template, visual supports, and more.

🎯 Need more goal-setting inspiration? Grab our free Med SLP Goal Bank​

2. πŸ“² Free Speech-to-Text App: NALscribe Live Captions turns speech into real-time text, and allows you to save transcripts to edit or share afterward. A person with aphasia told me she uses it to support her auditory comprehension, but it could work well for hearing loss or memory deficits too.

3. 🧠 DementiaBank Grand Rounds: a free, self-paced module series on cognitive aging, built around real case studies (with video) of older adults with no cognitive impairment, mild neurocognitive disorder, or major neurocognitive disorder.

4. ✨ New PROMs: The PROCS (Person-Reported Outcome of Conversational Success) is a validated measure of how successful and satisfying a conversation felt to the person in it. The DIS (Dysarthria Impact Scale) is a 22-item patient-reported outcome measure of how dysarthria affects quality of life. Shoutout to ​The Informed SLP​ for surfacing these!

5. πŸ€“ $10 (or Free!) CEUs: Learn more about the Virtual Rehab Center for adult neuro treatment, planning, home practice, and patient education, with case-based discussion throughout. If you want to earn 0.15 ASHA CEUs, it's free for NYSSLHA members; nonmembers pay a $10 CEU processing fee. Join us Wed, Sept 30 at 6:30 ET.

6. πŸ“Š BIAA Report: The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) released the comprehensive 2026 State of Brain Injury Report to help identify widespread systemic fragmentation, underdiagnosis, and specific barriers to care for both traumatic and non-traumatic brain injuries.

7. πŸ“‹ New PPA Assessment: The Progressive Aphasia Communication Toolkit (PACT) is a new strengths-based, ecologically valid assessment built specifically for people with PPA. In pilot testing, patients and care partners rated it far above traditional neuropsych testing.

8. πŸ‘­ Let's Connect: Find Tactus on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok, where we break down the latest research, share treatment ideas, offer clinical tips, and more. We'd also love to see how you're using the Tactus apps or the Virtual Rehab Center! Tag us. 🫢

9. 🏫 Free Neuro Courses: The University of Tasmania offers free, self-paced online courses on Traumatic Brain Injury, Motor Neurone Disease, Dementia, and Parkinson's. They're accessible to patients and care partners as well as clinicians.

10. πŸ“š Journal Articles: Here are some of the best journal articles we've been reading lately:

πŸš€ What's launching soon in the Virtual Rehab Center:

  1. A new spaced retrieval treatment to help patients learn and retain customized functional information by recalling it over increasing time intervals.
  2. A new writing treatment around note-taking as a memory strategy. For patients who struggle to hold onto information, sometimes the most functional skill isn't recall; it's capturing the right details in the moment.
  3. SNEAK PEEK: We're launching a new version of the Virtual Rehab Center for independent use at home, with a custom exercise plan and unlimited practice, built to keep recovery going after therapy ends. Coming very soon! πŸ‘€

⭐️ Ready to try the Virtual Rehab Center?

Get 3 weeks free! Ready-to-go interactive treatments, patient handouts, and home exercises make evidence-based treatment easy. πŸ‘‰ Start your free trial​

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I hope you found something of interest here. If you've come across something worth sharing, hit reply! I'm always collecting ideas for the next one.
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Warmly,
​-Megan

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