Cognitive Communication Disorder
What is 1 possible cause of CCD?
Stroke, TBI, brain tumor, progressive diseases, hypoxic brain damage
What is attention?
How and where you focus your thoughts
What is memory?
How you recall information, events, and the process of doing things
What 3 memory strategies did we try?
Visualization, mind palace, story linking
What is CCD?
CCD are difficulties with communication due to difficulties with cognitive skills
What is active listening?
A communication skill that involves going beyond simply hearing the words that another person speaks
What is short term memory?
Memory where we store a little bit of information (5-9 things) for a short time
Which memory strategy is the foundation of the other strategies? (e.g., what strategy do we use first)
Visualization
What are 2 cognitive skills that may be involved in CCD?
Attention, memory, reasoning and problem-solving, processing time, organization, executive functioning
What is 1 reason why active listening is important?
What is long term memory?
Memory where we store a lot of information (unlimited) for a long time
When is a good time to use the mind palace strategy?
Remembering a list of items (e.g. shopping list)
What tools did we share to help share about your CCD with others?
Educational handouts, podcast, CCD wallet card
What 3 active listening strategies did we learn about and practice?
1. Avoid thinking about what you're going to say while others are talking
2. Rephrase what others said
3. Ask questions to get more details
4 steps of remembering
1) Attention
2) Encoding
3) Storage
4) Retrieval
When is a good time to use the story linking strategy?
Remembering a list of tasks (e.g., to do list)
What 3 ways can we treat CCD?
Educate, Treat, Compensate
How does attention support memory?
Attention is the first step in the process of creating memories because we can't remember something we didn't pay attention to!
What is the difference between implicit and explicit memory?
Implicit memory: don't intentionally make, can't verbally share
Explicit memory: intentionally make, can verbally share
What is 1 way you could visualize the name 'Sophia'?
E.g., the letter E sitting on a sofa