Improving & Managing Memory Impairments

Do you feel like you're supposed to have a magic remedy to improve your patient's memory?

In this course, we'll learn how to move away from worksheets and towards incorporating memory strategies into day-to-day activities. We'll learn about how to set up reasonable expectations with family & caregivers of folks with severe memory impairments. We'll address goal-writing, giving cues, and teaching caregivers external memory strategies to include at home.
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More about this workshop

Our courses are educational like, MedBridge, with evidence AND shared experiences from OTs to help *apply* the learning in your setting. ✌🏽Here are the course objectives:

  • Learn how to identify memory problems through screening, observation, interview, and evaluation.

  • Explore evidence- and occupation-based ways to incorporate memory strategies into functional day-to-day activities. Strategies include repeat-back, errorless learning, spaced retrieval, memory notebook, n-back, predict-perform, and other external memory strategies.

  • Discuss how to communicate reasonable expectations with family and caregivers of folks with memory impairments.

  • Discuss how to communicate reasonable expectations with family and caregivers of folks with memory impairments.

  • Practice writing functional memory goals and skillfully adjusting cueing to facilitate the retrieval process.

Fire up those neural pathways!

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Meet your Instructor

Jessica Miller

Neuro OT, Mentor and Certified Brain Injury Specialist

Jessica loves helping people learn the skills they need to live satisfying lives - both her patients and other OTs. She's been a neuro OT for over 20 years, works hard to stay on top of evidence, and started New to Neuro OT Mentoring in 2022 to support other therapists and rehab clinics in the sometimes incredible and sometimes overwhelming world of neuro. She has also been an adjunct neuro OT professor at Indiana University, guest lecturer at many OT institutions, and is an (almost!) annual presenter at her state OT annual conferences. She knows how hard OTs work and how HARD the work is. You'll find she has a very approachable, practical style of continuing education based both in evidence and experience that leaves you with actual new tools and more confidence in your clinical reasoning.

Yes! This course provides 1.0 hours of continuing education/professional development. 💪🏽

We are an Approved Continuing Education Provider by the Indiana OT Association (IOTA). For American OTs, NBCOT also recognizes all state-approved programs –so you’re covered there, too. We've also had many international OTs successfully use our CEU/PDUs.

*The assignment of IOTA CE hours does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products or clinical procedures by IOTA.

Because every OT deserves support, and every neuro patient deserves great care.

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