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Cognitive Communication Disorders Seminar and Book Package
Package - Video & Book
$255.95 USD
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Product Details
Format:
Package - Video & Book   Instructions
Details:
Multi-disc DVD recording (6 hours, 5 minutes) with electronic manual and instructions, book: 375 pages
Authors:
JANE YAKEL, MS, CCC-SLP
BRUCE E. MURDOCH
Publisher:
PESI HealthCare
Copyright:
10/29/2013
CE Available:
Yes, See CE credit tab for complete continuing education details
Product Code:
RVKIT076085
Objectives
[+] [-] 071720 - Cognitive Communication Disorders
At the completion of this program, you should be able to:

  1. Distinguish between the specific types of attention deficits and discuss therapeutic interventions to ensure effective outcomes.
  2. Differentiate between the “stages” and “systems” models of memory and discuss effective treatment strategies for improving memory function.
  3. Describe the models of care for cognitive rehabilitation with respect to specific diagnoses and rehabilitation settings.
  4. Distinguish between memory systems and identify appropriate intervention techniques for specific patient diagnoses.
  5. LExplain executive functions and identify the most effective intervention strategies for specific targeted behaviors.
  6. List specific techniques and strategies for maximizing brain function and preventing further cognitive decline.
  7. Implement critical thinking and problemsolving skis to develop highly individualized therapeutic interventions.
  8. Design individualized and measurable goals for cognitive-communication deficits.

Outline
[+] [-] 071720 - Cognitive Communication Disorders
  1. Archives of the Brain
    1. Developing a critical thinking approach to therapeutic intervention
    2. Full spectrum of neurological disorders
  2. Attention / Visual Processing / Processing Speed
    1. Types of attention & attention deficits
    2. Visual Field Neglect vs. Visual Field Loss
    3. Processing Speed and Attention
    4. Case studies: Learning Assessments
  3. Comprehensive Patient Assessment
    1. Philosophy
    2. Approaches
    3. Principles
    4. Models
    5. Procedures
  4. Attention Assessments /Treatment
    1. Assessments / Tests for attention deficits
    2. Attention therapeutic interventions
    3. Medical management of Attention
  5. Documentation
    1. Medical Necessity
    2. Goals: Patient Centered Goals
    3. Skilled Documentation / Daily / Weekly
  6. Memory Domain
    1. Normal vs. pathological memory loss
    2. Reversible vs. irreversible memory loss
    3. System Memory: Declarative vs. Non-Declarative and all subsystems of memory
  7. Memory Assessments
    1. Quick and Simple Assessments
    2. Normed Based Assessments
    3. Criteria Bases Assessments
  8. Maximize Brain Function/Health Management
    1. Memory’s worst enemies
    2. Prevention of normal memory loss
    3. Depression with neuropathology
  9. Approaches of Therapeutic Interventions
    1. Traditional cognitive didactic approach
    2. Compensatory strategies
    3. unctional experiential approach
    4. Adaptation Approach of Memory
  10. Executive Functions
    1. Definition, development, importance of high level cognitive abilities
    2. Responsibilities of executive functions
    3. Behaviors associated with EF impairments
    4. Assessments/tests for executive function deficits
    5. Treatment of targeted executive function behaviors
    6. Environmental interventions and strategies
    7. Case Studies: Learning assessment

Author

JANE YAKEL, MS, CCC-SLP

JANE YAKEL, MS, CCC-SLP 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.

BRUCE E. MURDOCH

Professor Bruce E. Murdoch is the Director of the Centre for Neurogenic Communication Disorders Research and Head of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, the Foundation President of the Asia Pacific Society for the Study of Speech, Language and Hearing; and Vice-President of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics.
Continuing Education Credits Awarded for Completion of Entire Package
[+] [-] Combined Continuing Education Credit From All Components
Breakdown of Continuing Education Credits by Components
[+] [-] 071720 - Cognitive Communication Disorders
[+] [-] 072465 - Acquired Speech and Language Disorders
Audience
Speech-Language Pathologists, Speech-Language Pathologist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Directors of Nursing, Registered Nurses, Rehabilitation Nurses, Restorative Nursing Staff, Certified Nursing Assistants, Rehab Managers, Activities Professionals, Recreational Therapists, Audiologists, Physical Therapists, Physical Therapy Assistants
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