brain injury Archives – Page 9 of 34

Rehabilitation Settings

June 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This handout is intended for family members to improve their understanding of the roles and transitions between different rehab settings.

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Minimum Wage Activity

June 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This activity addresses money management and reasoning skills with an emphasis on real-world challenges.

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Organizing and Planning a Calendar: Volunteering and Family Vacation

June 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This scheduling task requires a person to use various executive function skills, including good initiation, visual scanning, divided visual attention, planning/organization, reading comprehension, written expression, and problem solving/reasoning.

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Identifying Relevant vs. Irrelevant Information: An Attention Activity

June 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This therapy activity challenges an individual to determine what information is relevant or irrelevant to the passage’s main idea.

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Time Pressure Management for the Treatment of Information Processing Speed

June 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource provides education on the hierarchy of decision-making for the successful use of time pressure management (TPM) and how to train patients to use TPM to compensate for slowed information processing speed.

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Model of Attention

May 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource defines the distinct yet interrelated subcomponents of attention.

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Child-Rearing

April 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource covers ways to work on child-rearing skills in functional therapy.

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Gardening with OT

April 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource covers ways to incorporate gardening into functional therapy.

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Financial Management: Wants vs. Needs

April 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

This resource works on cognition and money management skills by focusing on wants versus needs with spending.

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Information Processing Speed Following Brain Injury (Based on INCOG 2.0 Recommendations)

April 1, 2023 by Ashley Zhinin.

Information processing speed is related to the complex and multidimensional constructs of attention. This material describes two options to compensate for or treat slowed processing speed often seen following brain injury or other neurodegenerative disorders.

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