Cognitive Retraining
The word "cognitive" involves your child's thinking and reasoning. This includes attention, concentration, memory, organization, perception, judgment, and/or problem solving and planning. The goal is, over time, with therapy and a home program to restore the actual cognitive skill, as well as learning to use strategies to compensate for the impaired ability.
The therapy setting itself offers many opportunities to practice cognitive skills. Therapists can develop personalized tasks that require "thinking on your feet" and more closely simulate your child's real life situations. Working with a therapist allows selected tasks to be supervised and tailored to your child's needs, strengths, and functional level.
The second component of cognitive retraining is learning to use strategies, compensatory techniques, or "tools" to cope with weaker areas. Strategies are designed for each child using his/her areas of strength to compensate for weaker skill areas. Learning to use these tools not only compensates for impaired ability, but may help to rebuild the skill itself.
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