Understanding the underlying structures and processes in initiating and executing voluntary goal directed movements
- The motivation and desire to move
- The sensory and perceptual input
- Externally and internally guided movements
- Ideamotor and ideational apraxia
Understanding the underlying structures and processes in executing movement plans.
- The primary motor cortex (M1), internal capsule, and corticospinal tract
- Parallel structures of the basal ganglia and cerebellum
Intervention for patients with attention deficits due to acquired brain injuries e.g. strokes, head injuries
- Ideas for developing an intervention program for patients with attention deficits
- Providing ideas for intervention during therapy sessions
- Providing family and others with homework to extend intervention
- Linking and integrating your attention training into functional activities to meet goals
Intervention for patients with visual perceptual deficits due to acquired brain injuries e.g. strokes, head injuries
- Basic review of visual perception
- Ideas for developing an intervention program for patients with visual perceptual deficits
- Providing ideas for intervention during therapy sessions
- Linking your training into functional activities to meet goals
