Changes in cognitive communication can occur in persons of all ages. Common causes are traumatic brain injury, brain tumor, brain infection, stroke, anoxia (lack of oxygen), dementia or aging. These manuals contain therapeutic activities for cognitive communication for use with adolescents, adults, veterans and elderly persons. They can be used by speech language pathologists, allied health therapists, caregivers, and family members in hospitals, rehabilitation programs, community residences, assisted living centers, nursing homes, and at home.
SR-Cognition is a complete therapeutic multi-sensory tool kit targeting cognitive rehabilitation in adults and adolescents with acquired brain injury, neurological impairments, or developmental delays. The comprehensive kit contains two workbooks (one with easel option and one with re-useable reproducible pages) featuring hundreds of therapeutic activities; 85 photo cards; 20 picture cards, and a dry erase marker all in a portable tote box. Activities and exercises feature realistic every day scenarios, in real world environments using current cues for memory and language building, daily living and life skills development and reinforcement.
Brain injury rehabilitation manual with functional activities on cognition for brain injury programs and persons with disabilities. Activies on memory, attention, orientation, awareness, problem solving, communication, money management, and community safety are desgined for easy instruction and implementation. Not only for persons with brain injury, this manual can be used for persons with a wide range of developmental or neurological impairments.
Cognitive communication rehabilitation activity manual is for adults with acquired brain injuries (ABI), such as traumatic brain injury, stroke, tumor or dementia. It can be used by individuals who are in high school, who have returned from the military or who have developed cognitive based language challenges from any type of brain trauma. It is also helpful for persons with age related memory loss and mild cognitive impairments.
A portable treatment tool for therapists, this therapy guide has hundreds of worksheets with cognitive communication activities ranging from simple to complex levels. There are exercises and activities for comprehension, speech and language, writing, number skills, speech production, gestures plus word communication charts. The large print is helpful for persons with visual difficulties and/or cognitive challenges. This manual is suitable for a wide age range including adolescents, adults, veterans and elderly persons with neurological injuries or impairments due to head trauma, brain tumor, brain infection, or stroke.
This workbook is for adolescents, adults, veterans, and elderly persons with milder neurological impairments due to brain trauma, tumor, stroke or disease. It is an ideal companion to Volume 1 as it has additional activities. A speech and language pathologist can use these exercises for additional inter-modality and abstract language stimulation at a higher level.
With an extensive supply of large print worksheets using real-life activities and interests, it provides functional rehabilitation exercises relevant to a wide age range. Many activities can be used for brain game activities.
This innovative workbook features a collection of large print puzzles and word games designed to sharpen and stimulate the reasoning and verbal skills in a patient with mild to moderate neurological impairment. It is an excellent resource for a patient with visual field neglect, attention/concentration problems, or word finding difficulties. Many of the exercises provide a resource for brain game activities in senior communities.
Adolescents, adults and veterans with mild-to-moderate cognitive-based language deficits due to brain trauma, blast injury, stroke, aphasia will find this workbook useful. Exercises are designed to address problem solving, inductive and deductive reasoning and conceptualization – skills that are essential for cognitive rehabilitation. While the material is designed as fun activities, they stimulate the individual’s problem solving and reasoning abilities.
These stories are both practical and informative, and relate to everyday experiences or are factual with high interest. They are more advanced than the stories in Volume 1 and provide relevant and motivating exercises for adolescents, adults, and veterans with neurological impairments due to acquired brain injuries due to trauma, blasts, tumors, disease, or stroke.
Using a hierarchy of easy to complex exercises, they are designed for individuals with impaired attention, concentration difficulties, trouble recalling new information, or visual field neglect. Individuals who have the workbook can practice regularly between therapy sessions. This enables the person to readily see progress with advancement to lengthier and more complex stories.
This program provides persons with cognitive impairments, as well as elderly adults, easy access to e-mail and computerized therapeutic social activities using a USB drive. The simplified Internet browser can be used with any Windows computer on a MacIntosh or PC. It makes it easy for persons to communicate by email, explore the internet and play cognitive games on the computer. The training program leads users step by step on how to use a keyboard, mouse and email. This program is easy to use whether the person is a novice with computers or an experienced user with new cognitive challenges.
Clinicians can use this tool as part of a cognitive rehabilitation program, as a cognitive accommodation for computer use, and to improve communication skills and social interactions. The tutoring sessions are so easy that families and individuals can self-learn how to use this program.