brain injury Archives – Page 19 of 35

Using Smartphones to Stay Organized After a Brain Injury

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This handout provides five suggestions for ways to use a smartphone to help with home, work, and community responsibilities.

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Unilateral Neglect Task: Matching Pictures to Movie Titles

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

Features 9 pictures from classic movies with written movie titles. Cut out each box, place the pictures on the right side and the titles on the left. This task is designed to target bi-lateral visual attention for patients experiencing unilateral neglect.

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Understanding and Explaining Test Scores with Use of a Bell Curve

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This resource provides education on terms related to testing, an area to discuss a patients’ strengths/weaknesses with them (or have them write their own for awareness), and a bell curve to explain results to patients and caregivers following evaluation.

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Types of Memory

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

The handout helps increase insight into the way that the brain creates and stores memory and how targeted functional therapy can optimize each type of memory.

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Types of Acquired Brain Injury

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This handout is targeted for patients, staff, and caregivers, and outlines five major causes of acquired brain injury, including strokes, tumors, infections, brain hemorrhage, and loss of oxygen.

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Traumatic Brain Injury: Classifications and Severity Levels

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

This handout features a description of the classification of traumatic brain injury as well as symptoms by severity.

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Topic Inspirations for Stroke/Brain Injury Support Groups

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

Support groups provide a safe space for survivors of strokes/brain injuries and care partners during and after therapy has ended. This handout is as an inspiration guide for creating a meaningful group discussion theme for successful support groups.

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Tips for Thriving After Surviving a Concussion

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

12 practical tips for those who have survived a concussion. This handout is designed to provide education to patients and their families to promote follow-through for self-care after this type of brain injury.

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Three Stages of Creating a New Memory

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

Attention and memory impairments are common cognitive deficits following brain injury. This resource describes how these two skills relate and the three stages of memory, encoding, storage, and retrieval.

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Three Low Vision Visual Attention Tasks for the Right Brain

January 10, 2022 by Megan Berg.

These three tasks challenge awareness of both the right and left sides of a page, alternating attention as needed, with all text designed to be appropriate for low-vision patients.

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