SLP-Seminars on Cognitive Rehabilitation Taught by Renowned Researcher and Clinician
Don MacLennan, MA, CCC-SLP
Cognitive Rehabilitation and the Road to College
This workshop will summarize six different approaches to providing cognitive rehabilitation and how each can be applied to major areas of cognitive rehabilitation frequently addressed by speech-language pathologists: attention, memory, executive functions, and pragmatic and social communication. Treatment is presented in the context of a coaching approach in which the therapist guides people with brain injury through a process of strategy identification, implementation and evaluation, with an overarching goal of fostering self-coaching skills that facilitate self-regulation. This approach will be contrasted with a traditional treatment approach. Direct and compensatory cognitive rehabilitation treatments will be described and illustrated with functional application to assistive technology for cognition (ATC) and return to school.
Objectives/learner outcomes: Participants will be able to...
- identify six different approaches to cognitive rehabilitation
- apply the six approaches to cognitive rehabilitation to each of the most common cognitive-linguistic challenges associated with TBI (attention, memory, executive functions, pragmatic communication).
- describe a coaching approach to cognitive rehabilitation and how it differs from traditional cognitive rehabilitation treatment.
- describe the process of a needs based assessment for assistive technology for cognition (ATC) that matches the appropriate technology to the person
- apply principles of experience-dependent neuroplasticity to inform instructional methodologies when training people to use ATC
- identify specific examples of how to apply cognitive rehabilitation strategies to people returning to college.