Reconnecting After Concussion: Addressing PCS with IM - Self-Study    

APPROPRIATE DISCIPLINES:

  • Audiologist
  • Speech and Language Pathologist
  • Speech and Language Pathology Asst
  • Occupational Therapist
  • Occupational Therapy Assistant
  • Educator
  • Licensed Medical, Rehabilitation or Mental Health Professional
  • Music Therapist
    

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Course Description
Post-Concussive Syndrome (PCS), also known as Mild Brain Injury, disrupts a core set of higher level cognitive/executive function skills, resulting in deficits in attention, memory, processing skills, and organization/planning. Additionally, mental endurance/cognitive fatigue is an issue. These deficits often require skilled intervention to reconnect the superhighway of the brain. Basic fundamentals needed to reconnect these higher level cognitive skills include timing, synchronicity, and focus – which are also some of the fundamentals of Interactive Metronome. Learn when and how to introduce IM into treatment sessions with this unique patient population. Intertwine traditional neuro-cognitive treatment with the IM modality to provide the most comprehensive treatment program for your patients.
 
Instructor(s) - One of the following:
 

Heather Barr, MS CCC-SLP has been a speech-language pathologist for over ten years. She has worked in diverse settings, with primary focus on inpatient/outpatient rehabilitation programs. She is the Speech Language Pathology Department Manager and Inpatient Brain Injury Program Leader at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of York. Heather obtained her BA at the University of Pittsburgh and her MS at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. She has further developed her clinical skills by obtaining certifications in NMES/VitalStim treatment, DPNS/FMEP, and LVST. Heather is also a Certified Brain Injury Specialist, ACBIS. She is a program co-leader/co-creator of a newly developed Neuro Work- Hardening program at HealthSouth York, combining PT, OT and ST service needs in a holistic and job-simulated environment for patients with neurological injuries. She has provided numerous educational seminars in the areas of Cognition (low level – high level), Post-Concussive Syndrome, and return to work after Brain Injury. Heather is also a certified Interactive Metronome Provider, implementing the use of the IM modality as an instrumental treatment option for the remediation of communication and cognitive dysfunctions.

 
Course Objectives:

Target Audience:
This webinar welcomes the following professionals who have completed the Interactive Metronome Certification Course.

  • Audiologist
  • Speech and Language Pathologist
  • Speech and Language Pathology Asst
  • Occupational Therapist
  • Occupational Therapy Assistant
  • Educator
  • Licensed Medical, Rehabilitation or Mental Health Professional
  • Music Therapist

Instructional Level:
Advanced
 
Disclosure

The Interactive Metronome, Inc. has developed and patented a licensed technology trademarked as the Interactive Metronome®. (U.S. Patents #4,919,030; #5,529,498; #5,743,744; #6,719,690; other U.S. and foreign patents pending) Interactive Metronome, Inc. is the sole source of the following products: Interactive Metronome® , Gait Mate® and IM Home®. Because there are no other like-kind products available, course offerings will only cover information that pertains to the effective and safe use of the above-named products.

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