Cognitive Rehabilitation and Acquired Brain Injury

Brain Injury Coping Skills was developed to advance evidence-based practice to help families and survivors cope with the effects of brain injury. This intervention includes supportive psychotherapy, psychoeducation, stress management and problem-solving skills via use of cognitive behavioral therapy approaches. This unique approach to helping adults with brain injury and their caregivers in the community uses a 16 week cognitive behavioral treatment intervention. The manual documents content for 20 sessions with detailed instructions for facilitators, session activities, homework assignments, and a CD for handouts and worksheets. Winner of 2009 McDowell Award by American Society for Neurorehabilitation

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.

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.

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.

Rehabilitation manual for psychologists and therapists has a detailed protocol for assessing awareness and adjustment in adolescents and adults with brain injury. It can be used in rehabilitation and community programs and provides full instructions and scoresheets. By comparing the responses of survivors, therapists and family caregivers, the user gains information and insight into the complexity of selfawarenesss and its impact on rehabilitation participation and compliance with therapy programs.

An educational group curriculum on brain injury for adults and survivors provides content and exercises to increase understanding and adjustment to the physical, cognitive and behavioral changes caused by brain trauma. It is designed for use by clinicians, caregivers and families in rehabilitation, community and home settings.