Cognitive Interventions for Adults with Acquired Brain Injury
Registration is Open!
Prerequisite Required: Level 1 Neurorehabilitation – Assisting Recovery & Function in Everyday Life Following Brain Injury (No Exceptions)
Program Description:
The long-term quality of life for individuals with traumatic brain injury, and their ability to live independently and participate in their communities, often depends on ongoing cognitive challenges and their ability to manage emotions and behaviour. This course explores key ideas for working with individuals with cognitive impairments and offers practical strategies to support skills like problem-solving, decision-making, concept learning, organization, planning, and reasoning. It also covers important areas such as attention, learning, and memory.
The course covers issues such as:
- What is Cognitive Neurorehabilitation (including the history, models of recovery, transfer and generalization of cognitive skill and theories of forgetting).
- The dynamics of, and facilitation/retraining of, attention, working memory, learning, retrieval, organization, problem-solving and decision-making, reasoning and comprehension in neurorehabilitation.
- Cognitive contributions to social interaction and integration, including its influence on the expression of emotional and behavioural engagement.
- Status of cognitive-enhancing nutrients and drugs.
- External supports for enhanced cognition.
- Efficacy and effectiveness of cognitive neurorehabilitation.
Professors, Dr. Dawn Good and Dr. Julie Baker, will be teaching the program by live video on Zoom.
Dates & Time:
- June 22, 2026: 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. EST
- June 23, 2026: 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. EST
Day 1
- What is Cognitive Neurorehabilitation (CNR)
- History CNR
- Varieties of CNR
- Models of Recovery
- Transfer and generalization of cognitive skill
- Theories of forgetting
- The dynamics of attention: implications for CRT
- Retraining sensory memory
- Training attention
- Maintenance rehearsal
- Retraining memory strategies
- Mnemonics and Imagery
- Retraining working memory
- Learning to forget
- Retraining organization
- Retraining problem solving and decision making
- Retraining conceptual learning
- Retraining reasoning and comprehension
Day 2
- Retraining social and executive skills
- Emotional issues and post-traumatic stress
- Incentives and CNR
- Cognitive enhancing nutrients and drugs
- External aids to cognition
- The problem-solution treatment planner
- Neurotraining
- Using the treatment planner
- Fostering hope after acquired brain injury
- Efficacy and Effectiveness of CNR
- Questions and Answers
Early Bird Registration Fee: $475 (extended until May 15, 2026)
Full Registration Fee: $500
Contact Leah Hughes for a Group or Member Discount!
Please Note: Payment in full must be received in advance of the program. A cancellation fee of $75 will be applied if notice is not received by 48 hours prior to the start of the course.
Please direct all inquiries to:
Leah Hughes, Training Coordinator & Special Projects
Ontario Brain Injury Association,
PO Box 2338,
St. Catharines, ON L2R 7R9
Ph: (905) 641-8877 ext. 102 or 1-855-642-8877
Email: training@obia.on.ca