Description

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 SEMINAR DESCRIPTION:

There are over 5 million individuals in the US living with disability from a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and this number swells during times of war. This seminar will provide rehabilitation professionals with evidence on which to base management decisions for attention, memory, language, executive functions, and metacognitive impairments after TBI. An update on structural and functional neuroimaging of the frontal lobes will be provided first. Then, types and levels of evidence will be discussed, including the process through which clinical recommendations are developed. Importantly, rehabilitation professionals will be provided with knowledge and skills for critiquing systematic-based evidence reviews.

Current best practice using formal and informal assessment will be described. Evidence-based intervention will be highlighted, directed at skill sets where attention, memory, strategy use, unawareness and other metacognitive processes interact. Assessment and intervention case examples will be provided throughout the two days from which professionals can create assessment protocols and treatment goals based on a balanced perspective of clinical judgment and research-based evidence. Clinicians will leave with resources for maintaining their knowledge and skills for managing cognitive and communication disorders after TBI.

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Outline

                                                  DAY ONE

7:30-7:50       Check In and Onsite Registration (Coffee and Tea)

7:55-8:00       General Seminar Information

8:00-12:00     The following topics will be presented with 10 minute breaks at 9:30 and 10:45

                             Traumatic Brain Injury: Population and Injury Update

                             How and When Evidence Helps Clinicians Make Decisions

• The client, the clinician and the evidence
• Levels of evidence and myths of randomized control trials
• Systematic reviews and clinical recommendations: What are they good for?
• Reviewing made easy

                              Executive Functions and Metacognition Interaction with Cognition and Communication

• Interaction with attention, memory and communication
• Reasoning and solving problems
• Neuroimaging update

12:00-1:00    Lunch (on your own)

1:00-5:00      The following topics will be presented with 10 minute breaks at 2:15 and 3:30

                             Evaluating Cognitive-Communication Disorders Formally and Informally

• Organizing assessment by level of cognitive recovery
• Assessing cognitive-communication impairments
• Assessing cognitive-communication activities and community participation
• Systematic reviews and recommendations

                             Evidence-Based Practice for Attention Disorders

• What type of intervention works and for whom?
• What type of outcomes can you expect?
• Clinical cases

       5:00        Adjourn and Sign Out
 

                                                  DAY TWO

7:30-7:55       Sign In (Coffee and Tea)

7:55-8:00      General Seminar Information

8:00-1:00      The following topics will be presented with 10 minute breaks at 9:30 and 11:15

                             Evidence-Based Practice for the Use of External Memory Aids

• What type of intervention works and for whom?
• What type of outcomes can you expect?
• Clinical cases

                            Evidence-Based Practice for Social and Behavioral Problems

• What type of intervention works and for whom?
• What type of outcomes can you expect?
• Clinical cases

                            Evidence-Based Practice for Deficits in Problem Solving

• What type of intervention works and for whom?
• What type of outcomes can you expect?
• Clinical cases

                            Best Practice in the Use of Instructional Techniques for Persons with Memory Problems

• Direct instruction and metacognitive strategy instruction
• Practice timing
• Errorfull versus errorless goal performance
• What type of intervention works and for whom?
• What type of outcomes can you expect?
• Clinical cases

   Conclusion

• “Keeping up” with the evidence
• Future directions of evidence

        1:00       Adjourn and Sign Out

Speaker Profile

Mary Kennedy, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Speech-Language-Hearing Science Department at the University of Minnesota. She has over 25 years of clinical and research experience working with individuals with cognitive and communication disorders as a result of brain injury. Dr. Kennedy has published and presented widely on these and related topics, and she has chaired the Academy of Neurological Communication Disorders & Sciences (ANCDS) committee that develops practice guidelines on managing cognitive disorders in individuals with traumatic brain injury. Her current interests are in facilitating academic success in college students with brain injury. Dr. Kennedy specializes in evidence-based interventions that produce positive and functional outcomes.

Location & Lodging

Seminar Location:

Mercy Medical Center
Deliso Conference Center (lower level)
271 Carew Street
Springfield, MA 01104

Phone: 413-748-9000
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Seminar to be held in the Deliso Conference Center located on the lower level of the main hospital building.  Use the main hospital entrance and proceed down one level.

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Parking: Use Visitor Lot #2 or Lots #12-13.  Then enter the hospital via the main entrance and proceed down one level to the conference rooms.

 

NEARBY HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS:

Sheraton Hotel: 413-781-1010
Marriott : 413-781-7111
Hilton Garden Inn : 413-886-8000

Above hotels are located within 15 minutes of the seminar location. No room blocks have been setup, please negotiate your best rate.

Intended Audience

• OT
• SLPA
• SLP

Accreditation

This course is offered for 1.2 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate level, Professional area).

 

AOTA

First Content Focus: Occupational Therapy Process: Intervention

Second Content Focus: Occupational Therapy Process: Outcomes

AOTA: Approved Provider of Continuing Education by the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. #4095.
The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

 

Past Participant Comments

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