Brain Injury

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

Cross-Cutting

Symposium

(603252) Advances in Evidence: Treatments for Attention, Memory, and Executive Functions Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Presenter(s)

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  Jessica Brown, PhD, CCC-SLP

  Assistant Professor
  University of Arizona
  Tucson, Arizona
• MD

  Melissa Duff, CCC-SLP, PhD

  Associate Professor
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  Nashville, Tennessee
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  Anastasia Raymer, PhD, CCC-SLP

  Professor
  Old Dominion University
  Norfolk, Virginia

The purpose of this presentation is to review current and expanding literature related to attention, memory, and executive functioning treatments following traumatic brain injury. As increasing numbers of meta-analyses and systematic reviews emerge, so does evidence-based research supporting various intervention techniques. In this symposium, we review evidence and discuss critical appraisal of these therapeutic techniques as they relate to recovery for individuals with brain injury. We also highlight case studies in which these interventions may be useful and discuss critical application of this evidence in therapeutic settings.

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion, participants will be able to evaluate currently available evidence to support attention, memory, and executive function treatments in the TBI population
• Upon completion, participants will be able to highlight gaps in the literature relative to attention, memory, and executive function treatments in the TBI population
• Upon completion, participants will be able to draw conclusions regarding unique client cases that influence cognitive deficits and performance on various evidence-based therapeutic tasks post-injury