I'm going to describe my role in general. We help patients get back to being able to participate in meaningful activities. That could be gardening, putting on pants, being a student, or playing an instrument. So we really try to provide instruments that are super meaningful to people and client centered. We really try to tailor goals and interventions based on the person's needs.  We also provide services across lifespans - from infants to adulthood.

So specifically for traumatic brain injury, we're probably going to be working on independence. So activities of daily living - that could be toileting, bathing, dressing, the basic daily activities. Then you have other things like home management tasks- meal preparation, driving, mobility out in the community, thinking about finances- which is really important after having a brain injury, shopping, medication management, employment, leisure activities, and social participation.  We look at just what might be impacting those areas like vision, balance, coordination, attention, memory, sequencing and we help with that.

You asked about other therapies like physical therapy - they specialize more in movement and helping patients to regain balance and strength with the ability to walk functionally. They also work with patients along the lifespan.

For speech and language pathologists, they also focus on speech and articulations and language disorders, helping with communication, cognition, memory, and problem solving. They also work on swallowing disorders. So we kind of overlap a little bit but we all work on different things too.

I'm going to describe my role in general. We help patients get back to being able to participate in meaningful activities. That could be gardening, putting on pants, being a student, or playing an instrument. So we really try to provide instruments that are super meaningful to people and client centered. We really try to tailor goals and interventions based on the person's needs.  We also provide services across lifespans - from infants to adulthood.

So specifically for traumatic brain injury, we're probably going to be working on independence. So activities of daily living - that could be toileting, bathing, dressing, the basic daily activities. Then you have other things like home management tasks- meal preparation, driving, mobility out in the community, thinking about finances- which is really important after having a brain injury, shopping, medication management, employment, leisure activities, and social participation.  We look at just what might be impacting those areas like vision, balance, coordination, attention, memory, sequencing and we help with that.

You asked about other therapies like physical therapy - they specialize more in movement and helping patients to regain balance and strength with the ability to walk functionally. They also work with patients along the lifespan.

For speech and language pathologists, they also focus on speech and articulations and language disorders, helping with communication, cognition, memory, and problem solving. They also work on swallowing disorders. So we kind of overlap a little bit but we all work on different things too.