Chapter 13 Cognitive-perceptual approaches: eval and intervention Flashcards
Definition of perception
The integration/interpretation of sensory impressions recieved from the environment into psychologically meaningful information
Def of Cognition
The ability of the brain to process, store, retrieve, and manipulate information. It involves the skills of understanding and knowing, the ability to judge and make decisions, and an overall environmental awareness
Etiology of Cognitive-Perceptual deficits
Occur as a result of multiple pathologies including CVA, TBI, Neoplasms, acquired diseases, psychiatric disorders, and/or developmental disabilities.
Impaired alertness or arousal
Person displays decreased response to environmental stimuli
- Intervention - Increae environmental stimuli, use gross motor activities, increase sensory stimuli
Astereognosis (tactile agnosia)
- The inabiltiy to recognize objects, forms, shapes, and sizes by touch alone
- A failure of tactiel recognition although sensory testing (tactile and proprioceptive) is intact.
Impaired attention
- An inability to attend to or focus on specific stimuli
- May result in distraction by irrelevant stimuli
- includes difficulty with sustained attention and selective attention in addition to dividing and alternating attention between 2 tasks
Ideational apraxia
- a breakdown in the knowledge of what is to be done or how to perform
- a lack of knowledge regarding object use
- the neuronal model about the concept of hot to perform is lost although the sensorimotor system may be intact
- Intervention - Provide step by step instructions. use hand over hand guiding techniques, provide opportunities for motor planning and motor execution
Motor apraxia/ ideomotor apraxia
- Loss of access to kinesthetic memory so that purposeful movment cannot be achieved because of ineffective motor planning although sensation, movement, and coordination are intact
- Intervention - utilize genral verbal cues as opposed to specific. decrease manipulation demands. provide hand over hand guiding techniques. Provide opportunities for motor planning and motor execution.
Long term memory loss
- lack of storage, consolidation and retention of information that has passed throught working memory. Includes the inability to retrieve the info.
- intervention - rehearsal strategies. “chunk” information, tilize memory aids (alarms, timers, etc) utilize “temporal tags” focusing on when the event to be remembered occured.
Short term memory loss
- Lack of registration and temporary story of information recieved by various sensory modalitities.
- includes loss of working memory
- intervention - rehearsal strategies. “chunk” information, tilize memory aids (alarms, timers, etc) utilize “temporal tags” focusing on when the event to be remembered occured.
Impaired organization/sequencing
- Inability to organize thoughts with activity steps properly sequenced
- Intervention - Use external cues (written directions, daily planners). grade tasks that are increasingly comples in terms of number of steps required.
right-left indiscrimination
- Inability to discrimintae between the right and left sides of the body or to apply the concepts of right and left to the environment.
body scheme disorders
- loss of awareness of body parts, as well as the relationship of the body parts to eachother and objects
- includes body neglect and asomatoagnosia
- Intervention - Provide bilateral activities, guide the affected side throught the activitiy, increase sensory stimulation to the affected side
Spatial relations impairement
- difficulty relating objects to eachother or to the self secondary to a loss of spatial concepts (up/down, front/back, under/over, etc)
- Intervention - utilize activities that challenge underlying spatial skills. utilize tasks that require discrimination of right/left
asomatognosia
a body scheme disorder that results in diminished awareness of ody structure, and a failure to recognize body parts as one’s own.
Intervention - Provide bilateral activities, guide the affected side throught the activitiy, increase sensory stimulation to the affected side
Topographical disorientation
- difficulty finding one’s way in space secondary to memeory dysfuntion or an inability to interpret sensory stimuli