brain injury Archives – Page 33 of 34

Brain Injuries and Headaches

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This handout features a simple pain scale and outlines the use of the rule of 2 in order to reduce the frequency of headaches s/p TBI.

This content is only available to members.

This leisure-based intervention addresses bilateral fine motor coordination, executive functioning, attention, and visual perceptual skills while providing brain education and encouraging creativity. It is a fun way to work with clients who have survived brain injury or stroke, while addressing important functional skills. This activity has graded options for implementation based on time constraints or functional ability of the client.

This content is only available to members.

Birthday Shopping on a Budget

December 21, 2021 by Megan Berg.

During this cognitive task, the patient will read a birthday gift scenario and select various items to meet the set budget. This task will target attention to detail, planning, decision making, and financial planning.

This content is only available to members.

Benefits of Proper Wheelchair Positioning

December 21, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This handout includes caregiver education regarding the benefits of proper wheelchair positioning. Includes such benefits as fall reduction, improved intake, reduced risk of aspiration, improved skin integrity, pain reduction, and increased ADL independence. Aim is to improve caregiver attention and follow through for use of the proper seating system and timely repositioning.

This content is only available to members.

Baking Recipe Math and Substitution Considerations

December 20, 2021 by Megan Berg.

There are many patients who enjoy baking and want to return to this task. However, baking requires accurate measurements of ingredients for a tasty finished product. There can be quite a bit of math skills required and other thinking considerations if ingredient substitutions are needed. This activity addresses baking math with some practical situations and questions.

This content is only available to members.

Attentive Reading Constrained Summarization (ARCS)

December 20, 2021 by Megan Berg.

Attentive Reading Constrained Summarization (ARCS) is a cognitive-linguistic treatment created to improve a person’s discourse through reading and summarization using specific constraints. This material provides information regarding the purpose, components, prerequisites and population, materials, and steps for completion.

This content is only available to members.

Attention to Detail: A Proofreading Task

December 20, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This intervention requires an individual to remember the directions, sustain attention to the task, alternate attention, and make judgments during this higher-level cognitive-linguistic task. (11th-grade reading level). The task challenges people to catch typos while also reading the material to answer content questions.

This content is only available to members.

Apps to Increase Independence After a Brain Injury

December 20, 2021 by Megan Berg.

Phone and tablet apps can help increase independence with cognitive tasks after a brain injury. This list of apps addresses memory, medication management, diabetes management, money calculation, speech to text, spaced retrieval training, and time management. These apps can be trained by speech-language pathologists and other rehabilitation specialists in rehabilitation settings to address functional cognitive-linguistic goals.

This content is only available to members.

Applying Makeup

December 20, 2021 by Megan Berg.

This resource covers adaptive equipment and compensatory strategies that can be used in order to improve independence with applying makeup.

This content is only available to members.

Apple Accessibility Features for Cognitive Impairments

December 20, 2021 by Megan Berg.

Technology can be a wonderful thing, but oftentimes a person does not know how to make technology more accessible for a person with impairments. This material provides details regarding accessibility features and accommodations for a person with cognitive impairments using Apple devices and includes instructions for setup.

This content is only available to members.