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CRUCIAL ELEMENTS FOR TREATING THE COGNITIVELY IMPAIRED.

There is an identification and treatment of this.

• Self-Awareness: Diagnose levels of, and treatment for patient awareness/insight and acceptance
• Self-Efficacy: Identify four major sources to increase patients self-belief
• Ownership: Interventions to increase patient participation and engagement
• Meaningful Therapy Theory: Making therapy personal!
• Patient self-rating scales

TheRAPEUTIC AP PROACHES.

• Direct therapy
• Indirect therapy
• Patient-centered

There is necrosis to the memory systems.

• Declarative/Explicit/Conscious
• Non-Declarative/Implicit/Unconscious
• Work within the correct memory system for diagnoses

Medicine compliance, medical writing, and documentation are included.

• Components of a defensible, skilled goal
• Daily skilled terminology
• Measuring progress and justifying medical necessity

Changing nature.

• Direct Therapeutic Intervention for High-Level Cognitive Impairment
  • Attention Systems: Essential for learning
    • Selective Attention
    • Focused Attention
    • Sustained Attention
    • Divided Attention
    • Directed Attention
    • Shifting Attention
  • Visual Processing Systems and How to Maintain Them
    • Visual Cognition
    • Visual Memory
    • Pattern Recognition
    • Scanning
    • Visual Attention
    • Oculomotor Skills
    • Visual Fields
    • Visual Acuity
  • Information Processing Systems:
    • Relating them to function
    • Processing Speed
    • Processing Control
    • Processing Capacity
  • Memory Interventions for Neuroplasticity Changes in the Brain
    • Method of Loci
    • Visual Imagery
    • Chunking
    • Association
    • Mental Organization
    • Linking
    • Elaboration
  • Memory Interventions for Compensation Interventions
    • Acronyms, Acrostics
    • Rhymes, Rhythms, Rote
    • Rehearsal and Curve of Forgetting

There should be direct interventions for degENERATIVE NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES/ DEMENTIA.

• Spaced Retrieval Therapy
• Errorless Learning Techniques
• Montessori-Based Therapy
• Ability-Based Approaches/Therapy
• Reminiscence Therapy
• Memory Books/Aids
• Allen Cognitive Techniques
• Medications

There are direct tariffs for patient communication.

• Validation Therapy
• Redirecting Therapy
• Reflective Listening

There are active cases.

Faculty

Jane Yakel, M.S., CCC-SLP

Speech-Language Pathologist

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

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Jane Yakel is an M.S. CCC-SLP. A certified and licensed Speech- Language Pathologist with over 40 years of experience in the care of persons suffering from neurological disorders. Jane 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 taught at the University of Wyoming, Utah State University and DeVry University. She is a regional clinical specialist, a national trainer for rehabilitation program directors, and a director of a community re-entry program for traumatic brain injury survivors. She has presented at national and state board continuing education courses on topics such as Prospective Payment System, Medicare Documentation, Ethics and Professionalism, Comprehensive Assessment of the Adult Patient, Quality Indicators: QI, Customer Service, and Nursing Documentation.

Jane is the author of two guides in the field of cognitive rehabilitation and Dysphagia. Jane has a book. There are interventions for dementia. There are intervention strategies for professionals working with patients who suffer from a decrease in cognitive status. The book was written for multiple disciplines within the healthcare field as well as caregivers.

Jane is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and served as a representative for the People to People Ambassador Program for America Speech and Hearing Association. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Wyoming. Jane is the owner of ProStar Communications, a professional communications company, and Yakel Educations, a professional publishing company.

Speaker disclosures.

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Jane is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.