Traumatic Brain Injury: Home-Based Cognitive Stimulation Program

Welcome!
You have accessed the UAB Home Stimulation Program. It provides activities to use with individuals following their brain injury. These activities are designed to assist the individual in recovery of their thinking skills. Each activity provides a group of tasks listed by their level of difficulty. The tasks range from the least challenging (Level 1) to higher levels that are progressively more challenging.

You can select activities you feel might be appropriate and increase the level of difficulty by selecting appropriate tasks as progress warrants. Work on several tasks each day and change activities every few days to provide variety.

The program is set up so you can easily access the tasks.

The Activities Table of Contents lists all 48 activities (see right sidebar) with a link to each task.

The Skills Index organizes the of activities according to particular thinking skills needed to do the task. These areas include Fine Motor Control, Attention/Concentration Skills, Memory-Orientation Skills, Reasoning/Problem Solving Skills, Visual Spatial Skills, and Language Skills.

The Appendices give additional activities and resources that can be used for cognitive stimulation.

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This program is not meant to substitute for professional therapy and use of the tasks does not guarantee recovery. The tasks are offered to provide some guidance and structure to people with brain disorders and their families.

Your access to this program is free. You may print any part of it for use at home. You may not publish any part of this work and any mention of the program must include a reference to where it was obtained. See Disclaimer & Copyright Information.

Notify us when you use the program and if you find the information useful. The only way we will know if the program has met our expectations is if people contact us. We appreciate it! You can do this by email (tbi@uab.edu) or by completing an evaluation.

We would like to express our appreciation to the people who have helped us develop and field test this program. Augusta Cash, Director of TBI Services for the Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services has been very supportive. The TBI Care Coordinators of Alabama (Nadine Dunn, Karen Wisenbaker, Leigh Ann Walker, Carol Pinkard, Ron Haynes, Rena Kiel, and Jan Humphries) have used these activities with clients and provided valuable suggestions. Thanks!

Developed by Tom Novack, PhD and Jacqueline Blankenship, MCD, CCC-SLP, 2002.

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The University of Alabama at Birmingham Traumatic Brain Injury Model System (UAB-TBIMS) is one of 16 national TBI Model System Centers working to maintain and improve a cost-effective, comprehensive service delivery system for people who incur a traumatic brain injury. The UAB-TBIMS is supported by grant #H133A070039 from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Dept of Education, Washington, DC.

UAB was also designated by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) as a member of the TBI Clinical Trials Network in September, 2002.