SLP Strategies
Two (2) ways SLPs can offer support:
What is providing cognitive exercises and compensatory strategies?
This type of risk is influenced by your lifestyle habits.
What is a modifiable risk?
This age range is when we reach peak capacity for working memory
What is your 30s?
This function covers the mental processes responsible for decision making, goal setting, focus, and emotional regulation.
What is executive function?
One (1) example of cognitive exercises:
What are cognitive communication training, spaced retrieval, or increased self-monitoring?
This type of risk is NOT influenced by your lifestyle habits.
What is an unmodifiable risk?
Define working memory:
The ability to hold information and manipulate it to make decisions in the moment.
Executive function uses these two (2) cognitive functions to allow us to make decisions.
What is attention and memory?
One (1) example of compensatory strategies:
What are visual reminders, speech-to-text, or consistency where you can manage it?
Two (2) examples of chronic illnesses that influence cognitive decline:
As we age, we connect new information with ___
What is old information?
This natural process changes the ability to multitask, leads to changes in vision and attention span, slows decision making and information recall.
What is aging?
This strategy involves recalling information over gradually increasing time intervals.
What is spaced retrieval?
One (1) example of a modifiable risk and one (1) example of an unmodifiable risk:
Modifiable risks: exercise habits, smoking, diet, education level, or alcohol consumption
Unmodifiable risks: aging, hearing loss, or chronic illnesses
This age is when selective attention begins to decrease.
What is 60-70 years old?
Depicts how quickly we are able to make decisions.
What is processing speed?
Two (2) examples of visual reminders:
What are checklists, memory books, sticky notes, or visual schedules?
Hearing impairment can lead to decreased participation in which group activities which contribute to cognitive decline?
Conversations and activities
This aspect of memory reaches peak capacity in your 30s.
What is working memory?
Changes in this type of health also affects our brain.
What is physical health?