In my last post I wrote about a woman I helped to re-learn to read. What did I learn from her? An injury to the brain can make us not like something that we once loved. Children with no acquired injury but with reading or language impairments, after years of failure often want to avoid …
Monthly Archives: May 2011
The Brain: Making new connections
My first job as a speech pathologist was in a rehabilitation hospital that specialized in traumatic brain injury. It was memorable for so many reasons. Working with acquired brain injury patients taught me that no one chooses to do badly. I was able to see that all our behaviors both positive and negative are a …
Traumatic brain injury: Why would you ever need a Speech Pathologist?
My first job was working at a rehabilitation hospital that specialized in traumatic brain injury. It was a very interesting job because when working with a patient with an acquired brain injury the behavior present after the injury can be related to the site of the injury. I closed head trauma to the left side …
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