Publication details
Trénink kognitivních funkcí jako součást pozitivního přístupu k osobám po poranění mozku
| Title in English | Training of Cognitive Functions as a Part of a Positive Approach to People after Brain Injuries |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Training of cognitive functions is an important element of rehabilitation for persons with brain injuries. By practicing short exercises and tasks clients can enhance, maintain, or improve their memory, attention, word fluency, ability to learn, vocabulary or orientation in space. Clients meet in small groups once a week. Before their inclusion in the group a diagnostic of cognitive function using the appropriate tests is assessed. Training is carried out using paper and pencil or a computer. The entire training course includes 12 weeks of 1 hour sessions. Clients also receive home tasks. Our goal is to contribute as much as possible to the optimal functioning and return to a normal life. Clients are also positively motivated to adequately burden their brains in their own home environment. Cerebrum association offers its services also to family members of people after brain injuries, who often experience a strong burden, because most of the time they take care of their loved ones. Cognitive training is based on the assumption that the human brain has some capacity for restructuring, and cognitive function can reinforce or extend its area in it through practice. Training of cognitive functions is based on the book How to assess cognitive training (2010) by authors Malia and Brannagan and other related literature, and of course the clients actual needs. |