Following a brain injury, the ability to concentrate for more than short lengths of time may be compromised, and trying to maintain attention will quickly become tiring. This document gives you lots of functional strategies to facilitate your attention to help you achieve tasks and communicate effectively.

Executive functions are skills that allow us to initiate and carry out tasks effectively. Most of us take these skills for granted and complete hundreds of tasks each day without really thinking too hard about it. This article provides some functional strategies to help you plan, initiate and carry out tasks effectively following Traumatic Brain Injury.

COMING SOON - This download looks at strategies that you can use to help with memory problems following a brain injury.

The ability to read and write can be affected by a stroke or brain injury.  Although you might not get the reading and writing skills back that you had prior to your brain injury or stroke, it is possible to make reading and writing easier by using some different strategies.

Dysarthria effects your speech and can make your speech, hoarse, breathy and often unintelligible. One simple strategy to use to help people to understand you is to use an alphabet chart.  Naturally you can use this to spell words out if you are not understood. 

However, a quicker way is to just point to the first sound of the word you are trying to say. 
When the listener knows the first sound they can often cue into the rest of the word as you say it by listening to your speech and intonation, and using the context of the conversation.

Dysarthria effects your speech and can make your speech, hoarse, breathy and often unintelligible. One simple strategy to use to help people to understand you is to use an alphabet chart.  Naturally you can use this to spell words out if you are not understood. 

However, a quicker way is to just point to the first sound of the word you are trying to say. 
When the listener knows the first sound they can often cue into the rest of the word as you say it by listening to your speech and intonation, and using the context of the conversation.