BI-ISIG "Cognitive Rehabilitation" Task Force

Chair or Co-Chairs: Keith Cicerone, PhD

Focus: This task force is updating previous (1998-2002) evidence-based recommendations of the Brain Injury Special Interest Group of ACRM for cognitive rehabilitation of people with traumatic brain injury and stroke based on a systematic review of the literature. This is the third systematic review of cognitive rehabilitation literature. Pubmed and Infotrieve literature searches were conducted using the terms attention, awareness, cognition, communication, executive, language, memory, perception, problem solving and reasoning combined with each of the terms rehabilitation, remediation and training. Evidence within each area of intervention was synthesized and recommendations for practice standards, practice guidelines and practice options were made.

Sample Products:
Cicerone KD, Dahlberg C, Malec JF, Langenbahn DM, Felicetti T, Kneipp S, Ellmo W, Kalmar K, Giacino JT, Harley JP, Laatsch L, Morse PA, Catanese J.: (2005) Evidence Based Cognitive Rehabilitation: Updated Review of Literature From 1998 through 2002. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 86:1681-1692.

Cicerone, KD, Dahlberg, C, Kalmar, K, Langenbahn, DM, Malec JF, Bergquist TF, Felicetti T, Giacino JT, Harley JP, Harrington DE, Herzog J, Kneipp S, Laatsch L Morse PA: (2000) Evidenced Based Cognitive Rehabilitation: Recommendations for Clinical Practice. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 81:1596-1615.

Anticipated Products: The committee is currently reviewing the manuscript and recommendations to come from it as well as dissemination.

Meets: twice per year, at the ACRM annual and mid-year BI-ISIG meeting.

Contact: Keith Cicerone, PhD KCicerone@Solarishs.org

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