About the Authors
McKay Moore Sohlberg, Ph.D.
Dr. Sohlberg is a nationally recognized leader in the field of traumatic brain rehabilitation. For the past 21 years she has worked as a clinician, researcher and administrator in the development of programs to assist individuals with brain injury to reintegrate into the community at maximal levels of independence. The types of intervention programs that she has developed and about which she has conducted research have become model programs adopted by rehabilitation centers throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.
Dr. Sohlberg received her master’s degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences and her PhD in Educational Psychology at the University of Washington. She is currently professor in the Communication Disorders Program at the University of Oregon. She conducts clinical research aimed at developing and evaluating methods to help adolescents and adults manage cognitive changes after brain injury.
Catherine A. Mateer, Ph.D.
Dr. Mateer is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist with an extensive background in clinical assessment, clinical intervention and both basic and applied research. She has published over 75 articles and book chapters and two previous books relating to brain organization for language, memory and praxis, as well as to the assessment and management of aquired disorders of attention, memory and executive functions in children and adults.
Dr. Mateer is known internationally for her pioneering work in rehabilitation of individuals who have sustained traumatic brain injury. She received her master’s degree in Communication Disorders from the University of Wisconsin and her PhD in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario. Currently, she is professor in the Department of Psychology and the Director of the Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
