4.4a
List possible strategies to compensate for cognitive changes: Introduction
Management
strategies
As you saw in the brainstorm activities at the end of the previous
section, each cognitive deficit (eg a deficit in flexibility) will
result in
a person facing particular problems (eg being unable to adapt to change).
There are management strategies that you and others working with the
person can use to assist in minimising the impact of these deficit.
Another example is shown in the following table:
Deficit
Problems
arising
Management
strategies
The
person may:
You
and others can:
Speed of information
processing
- take
longer to complete tasks
- take longer to get ideas together and answer someone
- be unable to keep track of lengthy conversations and instructions
- make allowances
and give the person extra time
- speak clearly and evenly
- present only one thing at a time
- try not to interrupt or answer for the person
- check that the person is keeping up with the conversation
To complete this section
Review the comprehensive
table of strategies
Work through
each of the three case studies:
Case
study A: 16-year-old boy Case
study B: 40-year-old man Case
study C: 20-year-old-man
