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Cognitive Rehabilitation and Brain Injury
The BrainXtra Visual Enrichment © program is being used effectively as part of overall clinical executive cognitive rehabilitation care.
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Following acute hospitalization and early rehabilitation, some individuals with brain injuries will be discharged into specialized rehabilitation programs to continue the recovery process. Others who have recovered more significantly may be referred to transitional programs to fine-tune cognitive and vocational skills before returning to the community.
Still others may return to the community without follow-up services.
During this stage medical issues are no longer the primary concern. According to the Brain Injury Association of America (2007), more emphasis is needed to be placed on the rehabilitation of cognition (the way a person interacts with his/her environment) at this stage. It is at this stage that the BrainXtra Visual program can be a significant strategy to assist the individual. The goals at this stage, are to build cognitive and physical skills and prepare for the future.
Whether that means returning to school, work, the family home, a care facility, or another setting, the aim is to help the individual enjoy the highest possible quality of life. A neuropsychologist will usually do an assessment at this point to evaluate what abilities the individual with a brain injury has preserved and what deficits he or she now has. This noninvasive, task-oriented evaluation helps the individual with the injury and the family better understand how the injury has affected intellectual functioning, and provides valuable information about strategies to compensate for deficits. This information is the basis for further treatment and future cognitive rehabilitation plans.
However, the Brain Injury Association Of America states that individuals with brain injury often have difficulty obtaining treatment for cognitive dysfunction, termed “cognitive rehabilitation.” in that cognitive abilities (including attention span, concentration, working memory, information processing etc) and disabilities are not being properly considered in addressing all areas of functioning including communication, mobility, self-care, social interaction, recreational pursuits, and productive activities such as school or work.
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Cognitive rehabilitation of children
Cognitive rehabilitation of children with brain injuries presents some additional complications. The cognitive rehabilitation of children with brain injuries is crucial for their ongoing learning and development.
Children with brain injuries have a two-fold problem. First, their brains are still developing and new cognitive skills are built upon previously learned cognitive skills. Thus, a brain injury early in life interrupts the child’s learning and development as he or she gets older.
Second, injuries to the frontal-temporal regions of the brain, which control many cognitive abilities and new learning will often create new cognitive and behavioral problems for children at each new developmental milestone (i.e., ages 1-6 years, 7-10 years, 11-13 years, 14-17 years, and 18-21 years).
The BrainXtra Visual Enrichment © program can assist to extend the child's cognitive development in attention, memory and executive functioning from 5 years and above.
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Cognitive Rehabilitation Of Adults
Cognitive problems change over time for adults too. Early in recovery, arousal, attention and memory encoding problems may be the issues that are the most obvious; later, difficulties with divided attention, memory retrieval, and executive functioning (cognitive control mechanisms) may be most prominent. Cognitive recovery evolves at a different pace for each person, with many interacting factors affecting recovery. The BrainXtra Visual Enrichment © program is also useful in assisting adults.
Some individuals with brain injury recover relatively well and return to previous levels of functioning.
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The BrainXtra Visual Enrichment © program is an individually customised, integrated, computer-based exercise program that focuses on extending executive cognitive functions. It requiries a personal computer using the Windows operating system. Students undertake 4 to 5 training sessions per week, of an average of 10-20 minutes duration, for a recommended period of 3-4 months or as long as the overall clinical care program directs.
System Requirements:Windows 98 or later (98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista)
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Very Affordable high-quality neuro-cognitive brain training programs.
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