Cognition and Brain Injury

Course Overview

Haere mai / Welcome to this two-day professional development opportunity for intermediate to advanced rehabilitation practitioners. This course focuses on the role of cognition and its impact on the recovery journey for individuals within acute and community settings.

What you’ll learn:

• How brain injury affects daily function, learning, attention, memory, executive functions and behavioural regulation

• Explore different rehabilitation approaches applied to mild versus severe brain injury to support rehabilitation planning and goal setting

• Practical strategies and tools to integrate functional activities into cognitive therapy

• Understanding of recovery predictors and the role of neuroplasticity in rehabilitation

• Potential directions for cognitive rehabilitation within different settings and stages of recovery

Topics covered include:

• Neurobiology of brain injury -traumatic and vascular brain injuries

• Concussions and post-concussive syndrome

• Impaired consciousness, low arousal and post-traumatic amnesia in early brain injury

• Assessment and treatment of attention, memory, executive functions, and meta-cognition

• Exploration of standardised and functional cognitive assessments

• Applying cognitive rehabilitation approaches across acute to community settings

Included:

An extensive resource manual packed with tools, templates, and practical guides to support your mahi (work).