In honor of Brain Injury Awareness Month, we’re spotlighting some recent articles that can help you provide important services to the millions of individuals with a brain injury. Read more to find out how ASHA Journals can help you in your work with these individuals.
Patient-Centered Approaches
Practical Strategies to Optimize Cognitive-Communication Intervention in Complex Real-World Conditions: A Life Integration Approach: People with cognitive-communication disorders after a brain injury face a number of barriers to receiving intervention. Learn practical ways you can adapt intervention to the life demands of people with brain injuries.
Purpose in Life After Brain Injury: Expanding the Focus and Impact of Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation: As a part of the rehabilitation team, you can play an important role by providing therapeutic support for individuals after brain injury. Learn how to work within the team to connect your targets with patients’ broader lives outside of the hospital or clinic.
More New Ideas in Brain Injury
Use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Technology to Retrain Attention and Enhance Functional Communication Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Clinical Case Report: Learn how researchers used augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) to help a Veteran with severe speech, language, and cognitive impairments after a blast injury. After training, the subject could use AAC to make requests, as well as better focus his gaze and attention at home.
Evidence of Peripheral Vestibular Impairment Among Adults With Chronic Moderate–Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: In addition to speech and communication concerns, adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) also report dizziness and imbalance. Audiologists can serve an important role on the rehabilitation team by providing vestibular testing and rehabilitation for individuals with TBI.
Insights From Important Event Recounts Told by People With Traumatic Brain Injury: Measuring spoken discourse recovery after TBI can be difficult, with standardized measures being unable to capture the day-to-day variability of cognitive-communication difficulties. Authors present the important event recount task to measure spoken discourse by asking individuals to discuss an important life event.
Brain Injury Resources in ASHA Journals and Beyond
If you’re looking for more information on working with people with brain injury, our Traumatic Brain Injury Topic Collection contains more than 600 articles from across ASHA’s journals. For more on TBI in military Service members and Veterans, check out our curated Special Collection on audiologic and aural rehabilitation in this population.
ASHA has a wealth of information and resources available for members working with individuals with brain injury. Check out the Practice Portal for more on TBI in children and adults.
ASHA and ASHA Journals are dedicated to providing you with key resources to help you in your daily work. This March, we hope you’ll join us in spreading the word about the important role that ASHA members play on the TBI rehabilitation team.
Previous Coverage of Brain Injury Awareness Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month: ASHA Members Make a Difference (2024)
Brain Injury Awareness Month: The Role of ASHA Members (2023)
