Cognitive Presentations Flashcards
Cognitive Linguistic Quick Test (CLQT)
- Enables examiner to quickly assess the relative status of five cognitive domains through ten tasks:
- Attention
- Memory
- Language
- Executive Function
- Visuospatial Skills
- Identify strengths and weaknesses in specific cognitive domains
- Provide a “snapshot” of cognitive skills
- Identify areas for direct treatment
- Identify areas needing further evaluation
- Criterion-Referenced
CLQT demographics
- English adults 18-89
- TBI, CVA, Dementia, PD
- can manipulate a pen, respond verbally, can be administered bedside, can be given over 2 sessions
5 Tasks CLQT 1
- Personal Facts- episodic memory, orientatiton, communication, STM and LTM
- Symbol Cancellation- visual attention, visuospatial skills, scanning, discrimination, and inhibition
- Confrontation Naming- semantica and phonology
- Clock Drawing- sustained attention, working and procedural memory, planning, comprehension, reading & writing numbers, visuospatial skills, concept of time
- Story Retelling- verbal working memory, auditory processing, expressive lang., attention
5 Tasks of CLQT 2
- Symbol Trails- attention, EF, visuospatial skills/perception
- Generative Naming- word retrieval, working memory, semantics, phonological knowledge, EF
- Design Memory- working/visual memory without language, visual attention, visuspatial skills
- Mazes-EF, attention, visuospatial skills
- Design Generation- creativity, productivitiy, self-monitoring, rule following, and effective strategies
Pediatric Test of Brain Injury (PTBI)
- Children are not little adults, they respond differently to TBIs
- prior to this test they adapted adult verions for kids
- Standardized, criterion referenced test
- English 6-16
2 Purposes of PTBI
- Establish current ability levels
- Track changes over time
- To estimate a child’s ability to apply neurocognitive and linguistic skills that are often vulnerable after brain injury yet applicable to functioning in school
- Item response theory- items are scaled so easier questions have less pts
- Abilitiy score
What does PTBI Measure
- Attention
- Memory
- Language
- Visuospatial Skills
- Executive Functions
Same measures as CLQT
*** Can be with children and adolescence 6-16 with TBI or ABI (acquired brain injury)
- Prompt
2. Probe
- Prompt: neutral form of encouragement (“We have to move along”)
- Probe- cue for more specific information
Scales of Cognitive Ability for Traumatic Brain Injury (SCATBI)
- To provide a systematic method for assessment of cognitive deficits associated with TBI
- adolescents and adults
- Specifically designed to measure the following cognitive processes:
1. Perception/ discrimination
2. orientation
3. organization
4. Recall of information
5. Reasoning - Primarily used with English speakers with a CHI
SCATBI- Subtests or scales
- Perception and Discrimination (includes attention)- 11 testlets (sound, word, color, shape, size, picture, auditory discrimination)
- Orientation- premorbid questions and post-morbid questions
- Organization- 8 testlets (identifying picture categories, word categories, sequencing objects, words, events, (time of year, pictured tasks, recall task steps)
- Recall (Memory) 9 testlets (memory for graphic elements, word retrieval, delayed recall, cued recall of words, cued recall of words in discourse, word generation, immediate recall of oral directions, recall of oral paragraphs)
- Reasoning- 11 testlets (analogies, convergent thinking, deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, divergent thinking, multiprocess reasoning)
- Each scale can be administered independently; the whole test does not have to be administered.
- Each scale is made up of testlets (small sets of very similar items that vary in difficulty plus a few individual items requiring more than 1 response)
Treatment for Problem Solving
- Make the therapy functional and simple
- Individuals with TBI may have difficulty recognizing when there is a problem. When solving problems they may have problems deciding what the best solution is
Functional problem solving and Simple
Simple- parts=whole
Functional- more complex, real life problems
Symptoms of deficits w/ problem solving
Behavioral- difficulty drawing conclusions
- inability to figure out and apply rules in problem-solving activities
- difficulty with production and fluency of thought
- inability to learn from trial and error
- poor decisions about behaviors and friends
Assessments that look at problem solving
- Ross information processing assessment (RIPA-2)
- PTBI- word fluency (convergent naming)
- CLQT- confrontation naming, symbol trails, generative naming, and mazes
- assessments need to show what the patient’s strengths and weaknesses
Treatment at Problem Solving
Steps that allow a clear structure to the intervention process:
- identifying problems
- Generating solutions
- Organizing
- Sequencing
- Implementing solutions
- Managing time
- Maintaining safety
Goals for problem solving therapy
- Start simple and go more complex
- Teach compensatory strategies
- We want the individuals to be able to identify a problem and then take steps to solve this problem