What is Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy?

 

Treatments designed to address the cognitive problems that arise after a brain injury or neurological illness. There are generally two types of cognitive rehabilitation treatments:
 

• Restorative treatment: goal is to improve the cognitive functioning in domains that are impaired via training (e.g. memory or attention training)

• Compensatory treatment: goal is to learn specific strategies to compensate for problem areas such as using memory notebooks, calendars/day planners, alarms etc.
   

What types of treatments are used?
 

Evidence based treatments will be utilized in the clinic as part of day treatment or as a standalone treatment. Treatments offered at EMPOWER include but are not limited to:
 

• Cogmed Working Memory Training: https://www.cogmed.com

• CogSMART compensatory strategy Training: http://www.cogsmart.com

• Attention Processing Training (APT): https://lapublishing.com/attention-process-training-iii

• Lumosity: Lumosity.com

• HeartMath: https://www.heartmath.com

 

Who will I work with to do cognitive rehabilitation?

 

You will meet 1-2 times per week for one hour with the therapist for 6-8 weeks and then do assigned exercises from home or in the clinic 5 days per week.