Pre-Test

This module includes a Pre-Test.

You may find it helpful to do the pre-Test now and the Post-Test at the end of the module. You will be able to compare you pre and post answers.

The Pre-Test includes 12 multiple choice questions. It is quick to do. Your answers will be emailed to you.

Aim

This module provides information about the range of communication problems that may result following a traumatic brain injury (TBI), as well as strategies for dealing with some of these deficits.

Rationale

Communication is a complex function, often adversely affected following a brain injury. The ability to communicate effectively is highly valued, which means problems with communication can seriously limit a person’s life. Through lack of understanding, workers or carers may treat a person with a communication deficit inappropriately (eg. by treating them as having an intellectual impairment). It is important, therefore, to have a basic understanding of how communication can be affected following brain injury, as well as strategies to facilitate better communication.

Outcomes

At the end of this module, you should be able to:

2.1 explain different forms of communication and how we use them

2.2 reflect on your experience of communication difficulties

2.3 identify three principal sources of communication difficulties
            damage to the communication areas of the brain
            damage to the cognitive areas of the brain
            damage to the brain's frontal lobe causing social communication deficits

2.4 identify communication problems that result from damage to the communication areas of the brain

2.5identify communication/cognitive problems that result from a TBI

2.6 recognise social communication deficits that may result from frontal lobe damage

2.7 identify possible strategies for dealing with communication problems resulting from TBI

Module 2 compiled by:

Compiled by past and current
BIRU Speech Pathologists including
Leisa Elliott, Joanne Reid, Gillian Giles,
Kathryn Gorman, Nicholas Behn, Sarah Cotter,
Tia Croft, Nicole Simon and Manal Nasreddine
Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit
Liverpool Hospital, Sydney