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Sarah Baar
MA, CCC-SLP
Sarah is a speech-language pathologist working in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She's had the opportunity to work in many settings across the continuum, including acute care, acute rehab, home and community, and outpatient therapy, as well as being involved in various leadership projects. In 2016, she started the Honeycomb Speech Therapy website and blog, currently with over 3000 followers, as a way to promote person-centered and functional therapy ideas for adult rehab. Those who have attended her speaking events enjoy her practical approach and tips that the everyday SLP can implement for a functional therapy approach.
Courses with Sarah Baar
Browse Course CatalogSupporting Patient Relationships by Reflecting Patient Values: Five Ideas
Presented by Sarah Baar, MA, CCC-SLP
Supporting Patient Relationships by Reflecting Patient Values: Five Ideas
The patient relationship is an impactful factor on the success of therapy, but what does this look like specifically in our day-to-day therapy moments? This course blends the concept of the therapeutic relationship with the latest healthcare emphasis on reflecting patient values and provides five concrete examples of how this can be integrated into everyday clinical interactions.
The Forest or the Trees: Goals and Documentation in Adult Rehab
Presented by Sarah Baar, MA, CCC-SLP
The Forest or the Trees: Goals and Documentation in Adult Rehab
How do we integrate person-centered care, functional therapy, and evidence-based practice into goal setting and documentation that really matters in adult rehab speech therapy? This course describes the latest research considerations, tools, and clinical examples to promote efficient, functional goal setting for the clinical SLP.
Meaningful Goals Just Got Easier: Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (Recorded Webinar)
Presented by Sarah Baar, MA, CCC-SLP
Meaningful Goals Just Got Easier: Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (Recorded Webinar)
This course is a recording of a previously hosted live webinar event. Polling and question submission features are not available for this recording. Format and structure may differ from standard MedBridge courses.
Have you ever struggled to blend the pressures of writing both meaningful and measurable goals for clients? Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are a growing and valuable resource that can help support meaningful outcomes for those we work with.
This webinar will address the story of how PROMs fit into the big picture of what we as rehabilitation professionals do, the potential benefits of PROMs, the latest PROM resources, and how PROMs are used in various clinical scenarios. You'll leave this session ready to use this knowledge and the strategies provided in the webinar within your own practice.
Why and How to Practice Real-Life Activities in Speech Therapy (Recorded Webinar)
Presented by Sarah Baar, MA, CCC-SLP
Why and How to Practice Real-Life Activities in Speech Therapy (Recorded Webinar)
Impacting clients' life participation is an ideal for speech therapy, especially with the growing emphasis on person-centered care in health care. However, using participation as an intervention is starkly different from the traditional medical model used in many settings. It can be unclear how to transparently address participation in therapy. This course reviews the important evidence-based reasons why we should include participation as an intervention, and walks through several case examples to demonstrate how to use participation in speech therapy with the adult neurological population.
Person-Centered Approach for Assessment of Adult Neurogenic Disorders
Presented by Sarah Baar, MA, CCC-SLP
Person-Centered Approach for Assessment of Adult Neurogenic Disorders
Person-centered care is newly emphasized as a best practice, in general health care as well as speech pathology. However, this approach contrasts significantly with the previously emphasized medical model and impairment-based testing and goals. Assessment and goal setting are fundamental steps in shaping a therapist's treatment for a highly meaningful and person-centered approach. This course uses best practices, evidence, and practical ideas to describe a person-centered assessment model and functional goal-writing frameworks for the adult neurogenic population, with practical examples from speech-language pathology across settings, from acute care to home health to outpatient therapy.
Creating Functional Home Programs in Adult Rehab
Presented by Sarah Baar, MA, CCC-SLP
Creating Functional Home Programs in Adult Rehab
Person-centered care is emphasized as a best practice in general health care as well as in speech pathology. This course looks at applying a person-centered, functional approach to the final part of the clinical process: the home program (or homework). Mass practice is needed for new skills and strategies to be implemented in one's daily life, in addition to interesting, relevant stimuli. However, many times home programs are assigned that do not relate to everyday life (workbook sheets, card games, etc). This section will explain the importance of using home programs to practice and carry over skills in real environments. Several ideas of personally relevant home programs will be discussed for both language and cognitive goals. This course will use evidence and practical ideas across the continuum to give the SLP simple tools and ways to implement a functional, person-centered approach for the home program piece of treating adult neurogenic disorders, including language and cognitive home program ideas.
Close The Game Closet: Evidence & Tools for a Person-Centered Approach for Treatment of Adult Neurogenic Disorders (Recorded Webinar)
Presented by Sarah Baar, MA, CCC-SLP
Close The Game Closet: Evidence & Tools for a Person-Centered Approach for Treatment of Adult Neurogenic Disorders (Recorded Webinar)
This course is a recording of a previously hosted live webinar event. Polling and question submission features are not available for this recording. Format and structure may differ from standard MedBridge courses.
Person-centered care is emphasized as a best practice in general health care as well as speech pathology. However, current therapy practices continue to use games and workbooks as a primary therapy tool for a variety of reasons without clearly emphasizing a link to functional needs of the patient. How can we choose more meaningful therapy tools and interventions using what research tells us about adult rehab? This webinar will describe evidence-based and personalized interventions for the SLP to use in therapy for language and cognitive disorders in adults across the continuum of care.
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Sep 15, 2022
Meaningful Goals Just Got Easier: Patient-Reported Outcome Measures
Presented by Sarah Baar
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Aug 6, 2020
Why and How to Practice Real Life Activities in Speech Therapy
Presented by Sarah Baar
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Mar 14, 2019
Close The Game Closet: Evidence & Tools for a Person-Centered Approach for Treatment of Adult Neurogenic Disorders
Presented by Sarah Baar
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