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1. Outline specific types of attention deficits and discuss successful therapeutic interventions to assure effective outcomes
2. Describe the models of care for cognitive rehabilitation with respect to specific diagnoses and rehabilitation settings
3. Distinguish between memory systems and identify appropriate intervention techniques for specific patient diagnoses
4. Explain executive functions and identify the most effective intervention strategies for specific targeted behaviors
5. List specific techniques and strategies to maximize brain function and prevent further cognitive decline
6. Implement critical thinking and problem solving skills to develop highly individualized therapeutic interventions

COGNITIVE COMMUNICATION DISORDERS: THE ARCHIVES OF THE BRAIN

• Developing a critical thinking approach to therapeutic intervention
• Full spectrum of neurological disorders

COMPREHENSIVE PATIENT ASSESSMENTS

• Philosophy
• Dynamic Assessments
• Person-Centered Assessment
• Model
• Procedures
• Ethics and Professionalism

ATTENTION DOMAIN: THE HEART OF IT ALL (CASE STUDY ICON)

• Attention systems and behavioral deficits
• Assessments/tests for attention deficits
• Unilateral visual neglect: Assessment and Treatment
• Treatment of attention deficits
• Case studies: Learning assessments

PROCESSING SPEED DOMAIN: THE ROOT OF INTELLIGENCE

• Assessments/tests for processing speed deficits
• Treatment for processing speed deficits

MEMORY DOMAIN: MIRRORS OF THE MIND (CASE STUDY ICON)

• Neuroscience systems of memory
  • Declarative/Explicit/Conscious memory
  • Non-declarative/Implicit/Unconscious memory

• Decisions for consideration for memory interventions
  • Etiology: Is memory loss reversible or irreversible?
  • Assessments: Screenings, Standardized, Staging, or Person-Centered?
  • Approaches: Didactic, Compensatory, Functional, or Adaptive?
• Treatments
  • Approaches
  • Specific approaches
    • Didactic
    • Compensatory
    • Functional-experimental
    • Adaptive

• Case studies: Learning assessments

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS DOMAIN: THE MONITOR (CASE STUDY ICON)

• Definition, development, importance: High level cognitive abilities
• Responsibilities of executive functions/frontal lobe
• Behaviors associated with frontal lobe impairments
• Assessments/tests for executive function deficits
• Treatment of targeted executive function behaviors
• Environmental interventions and strategies
• Case studies: Learning assessment

MAXIMIZE BRAIN FUNCTION/HEALTH MANAGEMENT

• Memories: Worse enemies
• Prevention of normal memory loss
• Depression with neuropathology

Jane Yakel, M.S., CCC-SLP, is a certified and licensed (VA #2202005215) Speech-Language Pathologist with over 40 years of experience in the care of persons suffering from neuropathology disorders. Jane is currently a private contractor and consultant in Virginia and has worked in a variety of settings including acute care, outpatient clinics, home health agencies, skilled nursing homes, independent and assisted living facilities, hospitals and schools. She has taught at the University of Wyoming, Utah State University and DeVry University (Phoenix). She has been a regional clinical specialist and a national trainer for rehabilitation program directors and has served as a director of a community re-entry program for traumatic brain injury survivors. She has shared her expertise as an author and presenter at national and state board continuing education courses on various topics including, Prospective Payment System; Medicare Documentation; Ethics and Professionalism; Comprehensive Assessment of the Adult Patient; Quality Indicators; QA/QI; Customer Service; Nursing Documentation; Managing Dysphagia as well as Cognitive Communication Disorders in the Neurological Impaired; Cognitive Rehabilitation and Dementia.

Jane is the author of two comprehensive manuals and informative guides in the field of Dysphagia and Cognitive Rehabilitation. Jane’s book, Dementia: Interventions for Severe Cognitive Impairments, gives detailed intervention strategies for professionals working with patients who suffer from significantly decreased cognitive status. The book is tailored for multiple disciplines within the healthcare field as well as caregivers.

Jane is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, served as a representative for the People to People Ambassador Program for America Speech and Hearing Association and is a prior member of the Wyoming Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and audiology. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Wyoming, specializing in neuropathology. Jane currently owns ProStar Communications, LLC, a professional communications company, and Yakel Educations, LLC, a professional publishing company.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Jane Yakel is the owner of ProStar Communications, LLC and Yakel Educations, LLC. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Jane Yakel is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

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Nurses/Nurse Practitioners/Clinical Nurse Specialists - Credit Expired: 3/24/2021
No CE available for this board.

California Nurses: PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #:17118 for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.

Florida Nurses: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

Iowa Nurses: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Iowa Board of Nursing. Provider #: 346. Nurses successfully completing these self-study materials will earn 6.0 self-study contact hours.

Copies of the evaluation may be sent to the IBON. You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.

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Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants
No CE available for this board.

Florida Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistant: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Occupational Therapy. Provider Number 50-399. This self-study course qualifies for 6.0 continuing education credits.

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Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists
This course contains 6.0 hours of self-study continuing education. It was not offered for ASHA CEUs. Please retain your certificate of completion. If audited for ASHA Certification Maintenance, you can submit this certificate of completion at that time. For state licensure, teacher certification renewal, or other credential renewal, contact those agencies for information about your reporting responsibilities and requirements.

California Speech-Language Pathologists/Audiologists: PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board, #PDP 319. This course meets the qualifications for 6.0 hours of self-study continuing professional development credit for Speech-Language Pathologists or Audiologists, as required by the California Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board.

Kansas Speech-Language Pathologists: Approved for 7.0 self-study continuing education clock hours for Kansas licensed Speech-Language Pathologists by the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.

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Other Professions
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