Product Detail

1. Outline specific types of attention deficits and discuss successful therapeutic interventions to assure effective outcomes
2. Describe the models of care for cognitive rehabilitation with respect to specific diagnoses and rehabilitation settings
3. Distinguish between memory systems and identify appropriate intervention techniques for specific patient diagnoses
4. Explain executive functions and identify the most effective intervention strategies for specific targeted behaviors
5. List specific techniques and strategies to maximize brain function and prevent further cognitive decline
6. Implement critical thinking and problem solving skills to develop highly individualized therapeutic interventions

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
• Dynamic Assessments
• Person-Centered Assessment
• Model
• Procedures
• Ethics and Professionalism

ATTENTION DOMAIN: THE HEART OF IT ALL (CASE STUDY ICON)

• Attention systems and behavioral deficits
• Assessments/tests for attention deficits
• Unilateral visual neglect: Assessment and Treatment
• Treatment of attention deficits
• Case studies: Learning assessments

PROCESSING SPEED DOMAIN: THE ROOT OF INTELLIGENCE

• Assessments/tests for processing speed deficits
• Treatment for processing speed deficits

MEMORY DOMAIN: MIRRORS OF THE MIND (CASE STUDY ICON)

• Neuroscience systems of memory
• Declarative/Explicit/Conscious memory
• Non-declarative/Implicit/Unconscious memory

• Decisions for consideration for memory interventions
• Etiology: Is memory loss reversible or irreversible?
• Assessments: Screenings, Standardized, Staging, or Person-Centered?
• Approaches: Didactic, Compensatory, Functional, or Adaptive?
• Treatments
  • Approaches
  • Specific approaches
  • Didactic
  • Compensatory
  • Functional-experimental
  • Adaptive

• Case studies: Learning assessments

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS DOMAIN: THE MONITOR (CASE STUDY ICON)

• 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: Worse enemies
• Prevention of normal memory loss
• Depression with neuropathology

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Continuing Education Information
This educational offering is designed to qualify for continuing education for many professionals in every state.


Materials that are included in this course could include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice for your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.


Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this educational offering. Please note, your state licensing board dictates what is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact customerservice@vyne.com or 800-397-0180.


CE information is based on 100% attendance.

Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider #50-466 with the Florida Department of Health Board of Occupational Therapy Practice. This educational offering is approved for 6 contact hours for Occupational Therapist and Occupational Therapy Assistants.

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Other Professions
This educational offering qualifies for 6 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

All Professionals
In order to process continuing education, please supply the appropriate license certification number on the evaluation form.

Certificates, Educational Offering Completion Requirements
Certificates will be awarded upon receipt of payment and successful completion of the educational offering and evaluation form.

Requirements
Please note that full attendance and the completion of a post course assessment with a score of 80% or greater is required to receive full credit. Variable credit will not be awarded.

Technology Requirements
Digital Seminars, Live Video Webcast, and Online Course will require participants to set up a personal portal account via Vyne Education, LLC.’s website at www.vyne.com and have access to a computer with a sound device. Participants will have digital access to the  recording, course manual, post-test, and evaluation form. DVDs are sent through the mail (USPS). Participants will need access to a computer with an internet connection and a DVD drive. Participants will receive an Instruction Sheet and a DVD containing a link to the course manual, the video-recording, and a link to post-test and evaluation form. Participants have two options when completing their post-test and evaluation form; Participants may complete their test and evaluation online, which will require access to a computer and their personal portal account, or they may download, print, and complete the paper test and mail back to Vyne Education. 

ADA
If you require ADA accommodations, please contact Vyne Education at least two weeks before the seminar date or prior to purchasing any online or distance learning products so that arrangements can be made.

Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Rehab Managers, Rehabilitation Nurses, Activity Professionals, Recreational Therapists,