SKILLS ADDRESSED
Sensation/Perception
As a result of a brain injury, individuals can have difficulty appreciating normal sensations. Some, like Anna pictured here, need support to acquire and use adaptive equipment so that they can move about and access the sights and sounds of the world. Others need therapeutic intervention to manage specific sensory or perceptual deficits. These deficits may include:
- Impaired sense of smell, taste, temperature or pain.
- Visual field deficits and impaired scanning.
- Poor visual or auditory memory.
- Difficulty with position sense.
- Difficulty discriminating between speech sounds.
Sensory and perceptual motor screening is routinely conducted by our occupational and physiotherapists, while auditory perception screening is conducted by our speech-language pathologists.
Treatment strategies include client and family education, remediation to enhance skill development (i.e. structured paper and pencil and computer activities, desensitization training) and compensatory aids and strategies to improve participation and independence (e.g. smoke detectors to detect fire in the event of loss of smell).
Team members who address sensation include:
- Occupational Therapists
- Physiotherapists
- Speech Language Pathologists
- Rehabilitation Coaches
All members of the team have at least three years experience working with persons with neurological challenges (or are closely supervised by a professional with that experience).
