Welcome back to the Cognitive Rehabilitation Corner! Last week, we looked at how communication skills can be useful when in stressful situations. Now, we’re going to take a closer look at attention and concentration. Attention is a key cognitive skill necessary to all new learning and memory. And it is extremely important for rehabilitation. After […]
Cognitive Rehabilitation Corner
Communication: Pt. 2
In part one of our communication unit, we discussed receptive, expressive, and global aphasia—a language disorder that develops in response to brain trauma. This can be either difficulty communicating, understanding, or both. We then looked at general communication problems survivors tend to display and strategies to improve language skills, assertiveness, comprehension, and how to effectively […]
Communication: Part 1
Last week, we finished up our unit on memory! Now, we’re moving onto communication. Acquired Brain Injuries can impair the language and communication skills of survivors. Language problems, which are referred to as Aphasia, are categorized as either expressive, receptive, or global. Expressive Aphasia is the ability to use language to express complex ideas, which […]
Impaired Short- and/or Long-Term Memory Problems, Pt. 2
In our part one of Impaired Short and/or Long-Term Memory Problems, we first discussed how memory works and the stages information goes through before entering the long-term memory store. We also looked at the different sections of memory: immediate, short-term, long-term, prospective, auditory, visual, motor, and procedural, and what each of these sections are responsible […]
Impaired Short and/or Long-Term Memory Problems, Pt. 1
Memory can be best explained as a series of stages, in which information gets recorded, temporarily stored, and then permanently stored in the brain. [1] For information to be recorded, a person must first pay attention to the stimuli or information they are receiving or else the information will not enter the brain properly. Next, […]
Understanding Acquired Brain Injuries, Pt. 2
In part one of this two-part series on understanding Acquired Brain Injuries, we looked at what a brain injury is, how it’s categorized, and how to measure severity of the damage. Now, we are going to look at the common consequences of a brain injury! Common consequences of Brain Injury exist in a few different […]
