TBI-COMMUNICATION (NON PHARMACOLOGIC) MGM

SUMMARY

EFFECTIVE
1. Retrieval practice is effective for improving verbal communication.
2. Targeted figurative language therapy improves communication and comprehension.
3. Training in social skills, social communication or pragmatics is effective.
4. Goal-driven interventions may be effective in improving social communication skills and goals.
5. Group Interactive Structured Treatment (GIST) is effective for improving social communication skills.
6. Computer-based game programs which deliver cognitive-communication skills training may be effective.
7. Providing communication training to caregivers & partners is effective and encourages two-way dialogue.
8. Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment (CPT) program is effective at improving comprehension and production of a communication act.
9. Facial affect recognition and emotional inference training, management of impairments in social cognition and emotion regulation, Cogniplus protocols are effective for improving emotional processing and emotional intelligence.

INEFFECTIVE
1. Communicating “yes/no” responses with consistent training and environmental enrichments does not improve communication responses.
2. Text-to-speech technology improves reading rates in individuals with TBI, but not comprehension.

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