Description: This workshop reviews different treatment methods and approaches that can be used to promote, support, or enhance functional cognitive performance. Interventions such as cognitive adaptations, errorless learning, spaced retrieval, everyday technology, and metacognitive strategy methods will be compared, and contrasted and available evidence will be reviewed and critiqued. The advantages and limitations of each approach will be discussed along with the client characteristics, or cognitive profiles that might be best suited for different approaches. There will be an emphasis on the application of these concepts to functional activities or everyday problems observed in adults with acquired brain injury through case scenarios, video analysis, and problem-solving, however, applications across different populations (eg. dementia, mental health, developmental disabilities) will be discussed. This course requires participation in small group activities via zoom break-out rooms, completion of worksheets, polling questions, and large interactive discussions with the use of the chat feature to assess the learning outcomes stated below.
Audience: This course is designed for OTs, OTAs, PTs, and SLPs, or other licensed Health Professionals who have at least 1 year of experience working with people who have functional cognitive deficits. Prerequisite is Session 1 Functional Cognition: Overview of Executive Function (EF), Memory, Self-Awareness and Metacognition.
Content Level: Intermediate.
Faculty: Joan Toglia PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
CEUs: Course is 3.5 contact hours (not including breaks) or .35 CEUs
Dates and Times: Each course is provided in 2 sessions (attendance at both sessions is required).
Tuesday, November 5th (7:00 pm - 9:00 pm) and November 7th (7:00 pm -8:30 pm). Eastern Time or New York Time
Friday, Feb 7th, 2025, 9:30am - 1:15 pm - Eastern Time
Course Fee: $99.00
Session 3 Course Outline
Overview and cognitive adaptations (15 min)
Errorless learning, spaced retrieval (task-specific training) (25 min)
Use of everyday technology to support or enhance cognitive function (25 min)
Application to functional problems and case scenarios (30 min)
Overview of metacognitive strategy approaches, the Multicontext Approach, and case applications (60 min)
Guided learning methods and analysis of cueing and prompting methods within the context of activities (25 min)
Computerized cognitive remedial programs, virtual reality, and review of the evidence (15 min)
Synthesis, combining treatment methods, comparison, and summary of approaches (15 min)
Learning Outcome: Participants will be able to:
Select appropriate functional cognitive intervention approaches for 3 clinical scenarios based on knowledge of intervention approaches and their characteristics.
Apply knowledge of evidence-based functional cognitive treatment methods to at least 4 different written case scenarios, videos or clinical functional problems.
Provide examples of how everyday technology can optimize cognitive function for at least 3 different functional cognitive problems.
Distinguish between types of strategy training or prompting/cueing methods from at least 2 different written or video case scenarios.
Apply a combination of at least 2 different intervention methods to a case scenario or functional problem.