Commitment to Consumer Education

Our signature approach to cognitive rehabilitation–functional, cutting edge, and individualized intervention carried out to achieve optimal functioning in the client’s real-world situations–is described in many of the professional publications written by our Clinical Director, Sandy Milton. Publication reprints are available upon request. A partial listing of Sandy’s writings appears below:

• Management of subtle cognitive-communication deficits
• Compensatory memory strategy training: A practical approach for managing persisting memory problems
• Management of persisting communication deficits in patients with traumatic brain injury
• Appraisal of communicative competence in adults following head injury
• Conversational prompting: A sentence building technique for severe aphasia
• Functional evaluation of adolescent students with a traumatic brain injury
• Returning adults with traumatic brain injury to work: How the speech-language pathologist may assist

In addition, we have developed an expanding selection of easy-to-understand educational/resource information sheets related to our two areas of specialization:

• Home and community neurorehabilitation services
• Management of students with language-learning and cognitive-communication-social skills challenges

These materials are part of our ongoing educational commitment to the community we serve. Below you will find a partial listing of available resource handouts provided to clients and their team members:

• Executive functioning and critical thinking skills for school-aged children, adolescents, and adults
• Social (pragmatic) communication skills during social interactions: Our approach to management
• Age-related cognitive decline and primary progressive aphasia/other irreversible, degenerative dementia disorders: How a speech-language pathologist specializing in cognitive rehabilitation may assist
• Cognitive rehabilitation for individuals with gliomas and other brain tumors: How a speech-language pathologist specializing in cognitive therapy may assist
• Chemo brain/cancer therapy-related cognitive decline and the potential benefit of home and community neurorehabilitation services
• The role of a cognitive aide/NeuroAttendant^sm assistant in a home and community program
• Driving fitness evaluation following a brain injury or other neurological condition
• Client-program matching: The potential added value of a home and community neurorehabilitation program
• Indirect skill competencies for school success: Organizational skills and time structuring/time management
• Cognitive foundational skills for comprehending inferences and the use of figurative language