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Start Date
11-08-2013
End Date
11-09-2013

Evaluation & Treatment Cognitive Perceptual Problems

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Instructor's Name: Glen Gillen

Choosing an assessment tool that will be useful in guiding treatment for your client with cognitive-perceptual impairments can be challenging. This workshop will enable you to select the most appropriate tools to determine effective treatment strategies, prioritize goals and predict outcomes for your clients in all practice settings (neurorehabilitation, pediatrics, mental health, home care, etc.) Assessments that use relevant occupations to identify impairments will be highlighted.

Participants will be able to:
1. Identify specific impairments (neglect, apraxia, body scheme disorders, spatial dysfunction, agnosia, etc.) while observing daily living skills.
2. Choose and have working knowledge of standardized assessments including: the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure, Assessment of Motor and Process Skills, A-One, Behavioral Inattention Test, Kitchen Task Assessment, Multiple Errands Test, the Kettle Test, and Executive Function Performance Test etc.
3. Interpret errors that occur during ADL and mobility and categorize them according to impairment.
4. Critique present means of assessment.
Course Level
OTR
COTA
Course Focus Area
State
New York