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Travel Bug – Helping You Travel After Brain Injury

By |2023-09-19T02:15:43+00:00September 19th, 2023|Categories: Health Promotion, Rehabilitation|Tags: , , , |

Are you a person with a brain injury or disability who likes to travel? You should check out this travel planning checklist. It was created BY people with brain injuries FOR people with brain injuries (and other disabilities). The checklist was created as part of a rehabilitation program called "project-based group therapy". Please watch [...]

What is Cognitive-Communication?

By |2023-08-15T06:43:22+00:00August 14th, 2023|Categories: Rehabilitation|Tags: , , , , , , |

When a person experiences communication difficulties because of a cognitive problem, they may have a "cognitive-communication impairment". For example, a person might have an underlying memory problem which results in difficulty remembering the topic of a conversation, or difficulty remembering the steps in an instruction. These communication difficulties are caused by the memory impairment, [...]

Rehabilitation goals and accountability

By |2022-12-07T22:41:52+00:00September 4th, 2021|Categories: Groups, Rehabilitation|Tags: , , , , , , |

This is an article for any person delivering or receiving rehabilitation. If you (or someone you know) has an acquired illness or injury, speech pathology rehabilitation might be needed. It is common for clients to arrive at Wollongong Speech Pathology with some rehabilitation already under their belt. This might have been inpatient rehab, or [...]

Speech therapy after brain injury

By |2017-09-27T11:24:16+00:00May 29th, 2015|Categories: Rehabilitation|Tags: , , |

Communication and swallowing problems are common after brain injury. This means that speech therapy after brain injury is important. A speech pathologist has expert skills in assessing a person's speech sounds, voice, use of language, as well as their social skills and thinking skills after brain injury. We also assess and treat swallowing disorders after [...]

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