Cognitive Therapy

Have you noticed changes to your memory or cognition that are impacting your day-to-day life? Cognitive therapy can help you compensate for and improve these abilities!

 

There are 6 domains of cognitive functioning. Any or all of them can be impaired due to a brain injury, stroke, or dementia. Here are common symptoms:

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING

  • Poor decision-making

  • Difficulty initiating, planning, or organizing tasks

  • Impaired ability to perform daily tasks (e.g., reading a calendar, managing medications, using your phone)

  • Deficits in problem solving and reasoning

MEMORY

  • Memory impairments in short or long-term memory

  • Difficulty with working memory (e.g., walking into a room for something but forgetting what you needed)

  • Trouble with orientation to person, place, or time

SOCIAL COGNITION

  • Difficulty regulating emotions

  • Trouble understanding nonverbal cues in conversation

  • Poor insight into deficits

  • Difficulty with topic selection and maintenance in conversation

  • Inability to take other perspectives

ATTENTION

  • Slow processing skills

  • Inability to multitask

  • Trouble sustaining attention on a specific task

  • Now easily distracted by background noises

LANGUAGE

  • Inability to process abstract language/concepts

  • Difficulty finding the right words to express yourself

VISUOSPATIAL SKILLS

  • Visual neglect such as not seeing written words on the left side of a page

Speech Therapy for Cognition

At Neuro Speech Solutions, we specialize in cognitive rehab related to neurologic injuries. Here are some of the ways we can help:

  • We can assist an individual with dementia to maintain independence for as long as possible

  • We can help someone who has sustained a concussion manage their symptoms to be able to function at work or college

  • We can aid TBI survivors to get back to doing the things they once loved and feel confident in their cognitive abilities

And so much more…

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