Cognitive- Linguistic Rehabilitation

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Changes in cognition can happen as result of a stroke, traumatic brain injury, brain surgery, or dementia. Speech and language therapists assess the following domains of cognition: 

• Difficulty initiating, planning, or organizing tasks
• Impaired ability to perform daily tasks (e.g., reading a calendar, managing medications, using your phone)
• Deficits in problem solving and reasoning

• Memory impairments in short or long-term memory
• Difficulty with working memory
• Trouble with orientation to person, place, or time

• Difficulty regulating emotions
• Trouble understanding nonverbal cues in conversation
• Poor insight into deficits
• Difficulty with topic selection and maintenance in conversation
• Inability to take other perspectives

• Slow processing skills
• Inability to multitask
• Trouble sustaining attention on a specific task
• Now easily distracted by background noises

• Inability to process abstract language/concepts
• Difficulty finding the right words to express yourself

• Visual neglect such as not seeing written words on the left side of a page