"Grounded in cutting-edge knowledge about cognitive function and recovery from brain injury, this practical reference and text builds on the authors' influential earlier work, Optimizing Cognitive Rehabilitation. It incorporates major advances in the field to provide a new framework for assessing patients and developing individualized rehabilitation plans. The distinguished authors present principles and procedures for promoting engagement, teaching cognitive strategies and discrete facts and routines, introducing external cognitive aids, and supporting patients' social competence. Additional topics include considerations for using computer-based training, managing functional cognitive symptoms, and providing cognitive rehabilitation in the inpatient setting. The book features detailed case illustrations and filled-out examples of 19 reproducible planning and progress monitoring forms"--
Test of Orientation for Rehabilitation Patients (TORP)
Information, strategies and supports to ensure that people with a brain injury, their families and carers can make the most out of life.
This book is for speech and language therapists working with patients who have acquired communication disorders resulting from brain injury.
The compelling story she tells is about how the exceptionally strong love of his wife and daughters (and dog, Rebel) helped Evanshen through long years of frustration and rage.
This information book of rights and resources has been designed as a practical guide for people with ABI, as well as their families, carers and advisers as they negotiate the justice system.We now know there is a very high rate of acquired ...
Exercises for Right Hemisphere Rehabilitation: Attentional Processing Andvisual Reorganization Workbook for the Severely to Moderately Impaired
Life Care Planning for Traumatic Brain Injury: A Resource Manual for Case Managers
If so, was it enough? Could she trust God with Jen's future in the wake of the accident? Could she trust in His love for them all?Discover how God turned normal into extraordinary in this life-changing story of hope and love.
-- Simplified explanation of exam procedures such as assessment of level of consciousness, language acuity, memory, and attention-- Pocket card summarizes the main points to remember in assessing mental status in limited patient-contact ...
Brain Damage in the Preterm Infant