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Adults with Learning Disabilities or Special Needs

      There are many strategies that can be used to help adults with learning disabilities or special needs. Click on the links below:   Total Communication This is a holistic view of communication, often using a range of modalities or even thinking “outside the box” to create a system of communication that works …

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Adults with Special Needs and Learning Disabilities

  Adults with Special Needs and Learning Disabilities Adults with with special needs and learning disabilities (also called adult learning difficulties or intellectual difficulties in some countries) often have difficulties with communication which can be related to speech and language, social skills and/or behaviour. However, there are a number of programs and strategies that can …

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Adapting to Brain Injury

      See our TBI Home Page for a full list of information about Brain Injury, and links to information and strategies relating to memory, attention, social skills, executive functioning, and improving communication.   Adapting your home and improving your communication environment After a traumatic brain injury, many of the difficulties mentioned in previous …

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Reading and Writing Difficulties following Brain Injury

      See our TBI Home Page for a full list of information about Brain Injury, and links to information and strategies relating to memory, attention, social skills, executive functioning, and improving communication. Many people encounter reading and writing difficulties following brain injury. Unfortunately, many people that were avid readers before their brain injury, …

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Fatigue and Tiredness following Brain Injury

      See our TBI Home Page for a full list of information about Brain Injury, and links to information and strategies relating to memory, attention, social skills, executive functioning, and improving communication.   Managing Fatigue following Traumatic Brain Injury Fatigue and tiredness following brain injury are very common symptoms. If you do not …

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Attention Skills following Brain Injury

      See our TBI Home Page for a full list of information about Brain Injury, and links to information and strategies relating to memory, attention, social skills, executive functioning, and improving communication.   We are all equipped with a very complex and dynamic system of attention. These skills allow us to go through life …

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Executive Functioning following Brain Injury (planning and initiating tasks)

      See our TBI Home Page for a full list of information about Brain Injury, and links to information and strategies relating to memory, attention, social skills, executive functioning, and improving communication.   Executive functions refer to those skills and abilities that enable us to accomplish goal-directed activities. These are that activities that …

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Memory Problems following Brain Injury

      See our TBI Home Page for a full list of information about Brain Injury, and links to information and strategies relating to memory, attention, social skills, executive functioning, and improving communication.   It is common to have memory problems following brain injury. When we hear, see and remember information, the memory process …

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Communication difficulties following brain injury

      See our TBI Home Page for a full list of information about Brain Injury, and links to information and strategies relating to memory, attention, social skills, executive functioning, and improving communication.   Communication difficulties often occur following brain injury (TBI) or head injury and are often present alongside problems with memory, fatigue, …

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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

      A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause damage to the brain that may contribute to both short term and long term difficulties with communication and cognitive functioning. An injury of this kind can occur both from the impact of an external force or an internal event such as a stroke, tumour or …

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