Cognitive Communication Rehab

Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) work on more than just speech!! 

SLPs are uniquely qualified to evaluate, diagnose, and treat cognitive communication disorders and their impact on daily functioning. SLP assessments are instrumental in detecting subtle but debilitating deficits of cognitive communication impairments on family communications, social participation, academic success, independence in the community and successful return to competitive employment. These challenges have been shown to have a long term impact on quality of life as they disrupt one’s ability to build, maintain and access social connection, independence and academic and/or workplace success. 

How Does Speech Therapy/Cognitive Rehab Work?

Speech therapy for individuals with mTBI focuses on a client-centered approach to target individual goals and challenges to increase communication competence across a variety of settings- social interactions, workplace, school and in the community. Education, collaborative discussion/coaching along with evidence-based techniques, strategy training and direct exercises incorporating principles of neuroplasticity (the brain's ability to reorganize, adapt and heal) are utilized with application to functional tasks. 

• Education: Learning about brain injuries, management of symptoms and individual communication strengths and weakness 

• Strategy Training: Evidence based strategy training to improve cognitive communication challenges

• Direct Exercises: Engaging in activities to improve specific skills like attention, memory, and planning.

• Neuroplasticity principles: Applying principles like repetition, salience, generalization and specificity to help your brain recover and improve.

• Client centered: Evidence based treatment is implemented into client specific responsibilities and goals to help reintegration to work, school and/or the community. 

*Our goal is to help patients improve communication in order return to daily activities, work, school, and other preferred activities.

Speech/Cognitive Therapy can help if you have difficulty with any of the following:

Recalling new or recent information/tasks

Learning new information

Comprehending information that is heard or read

Pay attention/increased distractibility 

Keeping up in conversation 

Finding the "right" word 

Losing train of thought mid conversation 

Formulating thoughts 

Slower processing speed

Problem solving 

Shifting back and forth between tasks 

Expressing concerns, requests, opinions, ideas, rationale, instructions

Summarizing information