Cognitive Communication Disorders: The Archives of the Brain
- Developing a critical thinking approach to therapeutic intervention
- Full spectrum of neurological disorders
Comprehensive Patient Assessments
- Philosophy
- Approaches
- Principles
- Model
- Procedures
Attention Domain: The Heart of it All
- Types of attention and attention deficits
- Processing speed: The root of intelligence
- Assessments/tests for attention deficits
· Treatment of attention deficits
- specific therapeutic interventions
- medical management
- Case studies: Learning assessments
Memory Domain: Mirrors of the Mind
- Normal vs. Pathological memory loss
- Reversible vs. Non-reversible memory loss
- “Stage” memory vs. “Systems” memory
- stage memory processes
- encoding, storing, retrieval
- systems memory theoretically based
- Declarative/Explicit vs. Non-Declarative/Implicit memory
- Assessments/tests for memory deficits
- models of therapeutic intervention
- Traditional / Cognitive didactic approach
- compensatory strategies
- Functional-Experiential approach
- adaptation
- Treatment of memory deficits
- specific therapeutic interventions
- medical management
- Case studies: Learning assessments
Executive Functions Domain: The Monitor
- Definition, development, importance: High level cognitive abilities
- Responsibilities of executive functions/frontal lobe
- Behaviors associated with frontal lobe impairments
- Assessments/Tests for executive function deficits
- Treatment of targeted executive function behaviors
- Environmental interventions and strategies
- Case studies: Learning assessment
Maximize Brain Function/Health Management
- Memories: Worst enemies
- Prevention of normal memory loss
- Depression with neuropathology
Strategies for Successful Therapeutic Intervention
- Assessment of unawareness of impairments
- matching compensatory strategies to levels of awareness
- principles/treatment of generalization and transfer of learning
- gender differences in memory
Clinical Documentation
- Components of substantiated goal writing
- Cognitive communication goals: Samples
- Specific goal development