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Jane Yakel – Cognition, Communication, & Critical Thinking – Essential Components of Rehab: Assessment & Treatment of Neurological Impairments

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Faculty:
Jane Yakel
Duration:
5 Hours 41 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Mar 24, 2018

Description

Outline

COGNITIVE COMMUNICATION DISORDERS: THE ARCHIVES OF THE BRAIN

  • Developing a critical thinking approach to therapeutic intervention
  • Full spectrum of neurological disorders

COMPREHENSIVE PATIENT ASSESSMENTS

  • Philosophy
  • Dynamic Assessments
  • Person-Centered Assessment
  • Model
  • Procedures
  • Ethics and Professionalism

ATTENTION DOMAIN: THE HEART OF IT ALL (CASE STUDY ICON)

  • Attention systems and behavioral deficits
  • Assessments/tests for attention deficits
  • Unilateral visual neglect: Assessment and Treatment
  • Treatment of attention deficits
  • Case studies: Learning assessments

PROCESSING SPEED DOMAIN: THE ROOT OF INTELLIGENCE

  • Assessments/tests for processing speed deficits
  • Treatment for processing speed deficits

MEMORY DOMAIN: MIRRORS OF THE MIND (CASE STUDY ICON)

  • Neuroscience systems of memory
    • Declarative/Explicit/Conscious memory
    • Non-declarative/Implicit/Unconscious memory
  • Decisions for consideration for memory interventions
    • Etiology: Is memory loss reversible or irreversible?
    • Assessments: Screenings, Standardized, Staging, or Person-Centered?
    • Approaches: Didactic, Compensatory, Functional, or Adaptive?
  • Treatments
    • Approaches
    • Specific approaches
      • Didactic
      • Compensatory
      • Functional-experimental
      • Adaptive
  • Case studies: Learning assessments

EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS DOMAIN: THE MONITOR (CASE STUDY ICON)

  • Definition, development, importance: High level cognitive abilities
  • Responsibilities of executive functions/frontal lobe
  • Behaviors associated with frontal lobe impairments
  • Assessments/tests for executive function deficits
  • Treatment of targeted executive function behaviors
  • Environmental interventions and strategies
  • Case studies: Learning assessment

MAXIMIZE BRAIN FUNCTION/HEALTH MANAGEMENT

  • Memories: Worse enemies
  • Prevention of normal memory loss
  • Depression with neuropathology

Faculty

Jane Yakel, M.S., CCC-SLP's Profile

Jane Yakel, M.S., CCC-SLP Related seminars and products: 6

Speech-Language Pathologist

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association


Jane Yakel, M.S. CCC-SLP, is a certified and licensed (VA #2202005215) Speech- Language Pathologist with over 40 years of experience in the care of persons suffering from neuropathology disorders. Jane is currently a private contractor and consultant in Virginia and has worked in a variety of settings including acute care, outpatient clinics, home health agencies, skilled nursing homes, independent and assisted living facilities, hospitals and schools. She has taught at the University of Wyoming, Utah State University and DeVry University (Phoenix). She has been a regional clinical specialist and a national trainer for rehabilitation program directors and has served as a director of a community re-entry program for traumatic brain injury survivors. She has shared her expertise as an author and presenter at national and state board continuing education courses on various topics including, Prospective Payment System; Medicare Documentation; Ethics and Professionalism; Comprehensive Assessment of the Adult Patient; Quality Indicators: QA / QI; Customer Service; Nursing Documentation; Managing Dysphagia as well as Cognitive Communication Disorders in the Neurological Impaired; Cognitive Rehabilitation and Dementia.

Jane is the author of two comprehensive manuals and informative guides in the field of Dysphagia and Cognitive Rehabilitation. Jane’s book on Dementia: Interventions for Severe Cognitive Impairments gives detailed intervention strategies for professionals working with patients who suffer from significantly decrease cognitive status. The book is tailored for multiple disciplines within the healthcare field as well as caregivers.

Jane is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, served as a representative for the People to People Ambassador Program for America Speech and Hearing Association and is a prior member of the Wyoming Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Wyoming, specializing in neuropathology. Jane currently owns ProStar Communications, LLC, a professional communications company, and Yakel Educations, LLC, a professional publishing company.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Jane Yakel is the owner of ProStar Communications, LLC and Yakel Educations, LLC. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Jane Yakel is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.


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