Cognition
Diagnoses may include:
Traumatic Brain Injury (including mTBI/concussion), stroke, dementia (Alzheimer's, vascular, Primary Progressive Aphasia), Multiple Sclerosis & Long haul COVID-19.
This is not an exhaustive list. Please contact us to obtain additional information.
How we can help
- Assist an individual with a TBI compensate for and/or improve cognitive skills for daily tasks
- Maintain independence for as long as possible for an individual with dementia
- Suggest & implement modifications for improved return to work/return to school
Mindful Speech Therapy is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist (CBIS).
Domains we target
Attention
- Difficulty maintaining attention on a task
- Difficulty tuning out distractions
- Difficulty shifting between tasks
- Difficulty multi-tasking
Executive functioning
- Difficulty controlling/managing emotions
- Difficulty problem solving
- Being socially inappropriate
- Impaired judgment
- Lack of awareness of difficulties
Memory
- Difficulty remembering if you completed something or not
- Forgetting where common items are kept
- Misplacing items
- Forgetting necessary items when leaving the house
- Forgetting important dates, phone numbers
Information Processing
- Difficulty gathering information, processing it, and responding
To learn more about cognitive therapy, read here
