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At ACCR, therapy services are provided in both English or French, depending on the client's individual needs and request. ACCR specializes in providing the following therapy services:
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Acquired brain Injury
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Language
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Speech
Acquired Brain Injury Therapy
After completing an assessment to determine what areas need improvement, the speech-language pathologist will typically focus on cognitive retraining.
After completing an assessment to determine what areas need improvement, the speech-language pathologist will typically focus on cognitive retraining.
What is Cognitive Retraining?
Cognitive retraining is a therapeutic strategy that a speech language pathologist uses to improve or restore a person's skills in the areas of attention, memory, organizing, reasoning and understanding, problem-solving, decision making, and higher-level cognitive abilities. These skills are all interrelated. Cognitive retraining is one aspect of cognitive rehabilitation, and utilizes a comprehensive approach to restoring such skills after brain injury or other disability.
- Memory: therapy targets improving memory and compensation for memory deficits
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Attention: therapy targets increasing attention capacity through drill work and self-awareness
- Sustained: the ability to maintain focus on a single task over time
- Selective: the ability to maintain focus on a task with a distraction present
- Divided: the ability to complete two tasks at one time
- Neglect: a deficit of attention where patients do not recognize stimuli/body parts despite the eyes perception of that target
- Problem Solving: cognitive process to determine how to proceed in a given situation
- Reasoning: connecting information into a logical manner
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Executive Functioning: addresses meta-awareness skills such as self-monitoring, self-control, prospective thinking, and judgment
Language Therapy
ACCR provides language therapy to individuals of all ages with a variety of diagnoses. Language therapy may target receptive language, (comprehension) expressive language, (expression) or both. Language goals generally address:
Clients of all ages are treated for disorders of articulation arising from:
ACCR provides language therapy to individuals of all ages with a variety of diagnoses. Language therapy may target receptive language, (comprehension) expressive language, (expression) or both. Language goals generally address:
- Semantics or vocabulary development
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Grammar
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Syntax
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Appropriate use of language
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Processing of spoken language (i.e., recall of information, following directions, question processing)
- Higher-level cognitive-linguistic skills (i.e., categorization, comparing/contrasting, inferencing, understanding, and using humour)
Clients of all ages are treated for disorders of articulation arising from:
- Delayed speech development,
- Phonological impairments
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Neurologically-based impairments (e.g., Apraxia)
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