For
Occupational, Physical, Speech and Recreation Therapists
Functional Cognitive
Activities
An alternative and effective approach to BI and
stroke rehabilitation.
This approach proposes that therapists dealing with
cognitive deficits conduct therapy sessions that steer away from work
on primary cognitive skills in isolation and switch to having the
patient perform comprehensive activities in 'real-life' environments.
This is accomplished by utilization of a graded sequence of functional
therapy activities.
The main concept behind this approach is that three
global factors influence the patient's 'real-life' functioning. These
factors include the awareness and management of: interpersonal
relationships; the environment; and time constraints. Therapy
activities in this approach have been structured to interweave
the three global factors so that the patient interacts dynamically with
other people, physical space and time parameters during sessions.
As the patient improves, expectations for sessions
change as environmental demands increase and tasks become more complex.
The levels of the sequence pertain to patients ranging from post coma
to those in community reintegration.
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