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Cognitive communication refers to the ability an individual has to orient themselves to a situation, make connections within reality, and perform higher order tasks – including managing money and a daily schedule. People with cognitive decline may communicate in a disorganized way or may otherwise function differently in interpersonal interaction due to an inability to sufficiently focus or remember information.
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Tools for caregivers
Tools for Therapists
apps and programs
Cognitive training
Lumosity
Eidetic
Tactus Therapy
- Category Therapy
- Visual Attention Therapy
- Spaced Retrieval Therapy
CT Speech and Cognitive Therapy App
Reminders & prompts
Pill Prompter
Endeavor 3
Medisafe
EZ Buzz
LastPass
Money Management
Money Up!
Cash Strapped
TASK Simplification
CanPlan
Qcard
processing & strategizing
Monument Valley
Plants vs. Zombies
Community & Communication Tools
In Case of Emergency
Unus Tactus
Community Sidekick
Books
podcasts
ACDS Podcasts – Ep. 10 – A Conversation with McKay Moore Sohlberg – Cognitive Rehabilitation
Chatting with Betsy – Dementia Coach for the Family
ASHA Voices – Cognitive-Communication Disorders and the Justice System
Speech Uncensored – S1:E16 Close the Game Closet: Better Cognitive Therapy with Sarah Baar MA, CCC-SLP
WEB
NEWS & PEER REVIEW
FOR CAREGIVERS
Caring for Adults with Cognitive and Memory Impairment
TOOLS AND STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING COMMUNICATION SKILLS FOR ALZHEIMER’S CAREGIVERS
for Therapists
Assessment
- BCAT Self-Assessment Tools.
- BCRS, FAST, and GDS.
- Brief Evaluation of Executive Function.
- Dementia Severity Rating Scale.
- Functional Activities Questionnaire.
- IQCODE.
- Lawton-Brody IADL.
- MOCA.
- Neuro-QoL.
- SAGE.
- Short Blessed Test.
- SLUMS.
- Iowa Trail Making Test
List from eatspeakthink.com
Cognitive Communication CHECKLIST for Acquired Brain Injury (CCCABI)
The Montreal Evaluation of Communication (MEC)
Assessment of Language Related Functional Activities (ALFA)
Brief Cognitive Rating Scale
Test of Everyday Attention (TEA)
Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III
RIPA-G:2: Ross Information Processing Assessment-Geriatric, Second Edition
Functional Assessment of Verbal Reasoning and Executive Strategies
Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status
Scales of Cognitive and Communicative Ability for Neurorehabilitation (SCCAN)
La Trobe Communication Questionnaire
Galveston Orientation and Amnesia Test (GOAT)
ABBREVIATED WESTMEAD PTA SCALE (A-WPTAS)
GENERAL PRACTITIONER ASSESSMENT OF COGNITION
Non-Verbal Assessments
- Raven’s Progressive Matrices (RPM)
- Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test (CLQT)
- Test of Nonverbal Intelligence (TONI)
- Butt Nonverbal Reasoning Test (BNVR)
List from Tactus Therapy
Continuing education
What’s Working in treatment
Disclaimer: I do not receive any monetary or other reward for sharing any material from any source on my platform. All sources are from credible educational or therapy-specific sites, which I may have or may not have used in the past. Only the areas in which I have initialed are to be considered my own ideas or advice. Being that the resource page is a collection of ideas from different clinicians, you may encounter ideas that differ from one another. Any use of any materials or resource from this page or links attached, is at your own free will.
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