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Cognition

Attention

  • Difficulties sustaining attention

  • Inability to alternate between tasks or multi-task

  • Trouble focusing with background noise

Memory

  • Orientation difficulties with date, location, etc.

  • Short-term or long-term memory deficits

  • Working memory difficulties (e.g. asking for directions and remembering until you reach the destination)
     

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Executive Functioning

  • Deficits with reasoning and problem solving

  • Safety awareness concerns

  • Poor decision making

  • Inability to complete daily tasks (e.g. manage medication and finances)

  • Difficulties initiating, planning, organizing, and executing a task

 

Social Cognition

  • Difficulties regulating emotions

  • Trouble understanding non-verbals

  • Poor insight into deficit

  • Unable to understand other's perspective

  • Deficits with topic selection and maintenance in conversation

Language
  • Trouble understanding abstract concepts/language
  • Difficulties finding the right words to express yourself

 

Visuospatial

  • Visual neglect such as neglecting the written words on the left side of the page

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