Beneficial effect from a cognitive training programme on children with acquired brain injuries demonstrated in a controlled study

Hooft, Ingrid van’t; Andersson, Karin; Bergman, B; Sejersen, Thomas; Wendt, Lennart von; Bartfai, Aniko

doi:10.1080/02699050400025224

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“…There are limited data from the APT literature demonstrating that strategy practice improves memory. In the study by Van't Hooft et al [2005] described earlier, the Amsterdam Memory and Training Program for children improved delayed word memory as well as attention. No change in immediate memory, however, was noted.…”

Section: Memorymentioning

confidence: 93%

“…A summary of these studies is provided in Table 2. Van't Hooft et al [2005] examined the efficacy of an attention training program in children with brain injury due to a variety of etiologies, including trauma, infection, or brain tumor using the Amsterdam Memory and Training Program for children, based on a model of attention which includes sustained and selective attention and mental tracking. This program involved 30-min per day of training over a 17-week period.…”

Section: Attention and Working Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cognitive rehabilitation for children with acquired brain injury

Slomine

Locascio

2009

Dev Disabil Res Revs

105

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Cognitive deficits are frequent consequences of acquired brain injury (ABI) and often require intervention. We review the theoretical and empirical literature on cognitive rehabilitation in a variety of treatment domains including attention, memory, unilateral neglect, speech and language, executive functioning, and family involvement/education. Because there are more well-designed studies examining the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation in adults with brain injury, the major findings from this body of literature are also highlighted. In addition, given that similar cognitive and behavioral concerns are often apparent in children with certain neurodevelopmental disorders, selected literature focusing on interventions for these groups of children is included. Limitations and challenges inherent in examining cognitive interventions in children with ABI are also discussed. Overall, despite the growing body of literature examining the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation in children with ABI, there continues to be a great need to develop well-designed studies to examine the efficacy of these interventions.

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Section: Memorymentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Attention and Working Memorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Cognitive rehabilitation for children with acquired brain injury

Slomine

Locascio

2009

Dev Disabil Res Revs

105

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“…These used individually tailored interventions for specific memory impairments. At the time our study was developed there was only one published study examining the efficacy of a memory (and attention) training programme in a group of children with ABI; the Amsterdam Memory and Attention Training for children (Amat-c;van't Hooft et al, 2005;van't Hooft, Andersson, Sejersen, Bartfai, & von Wendt, 2003). The programme, which was initially developed and used (Hendriks, 1996;Hendriks & van den Broek, 1996) for remediation of attention of memory difficulties in children treated for cancer, was modified and delivered individually.…”

Section: Rehabilitation Of Memory Difficultiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rehabilitation of everyday memory deficits in paediatric brain injury: Self-instruction and diary training

Epps

Parry

et al. 2011

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

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Memory problems that interfere with everyday living are frequently reported in children who have sustained acquired brain injury (ABI), but their nature and rehabilitation is under-researched. This study aimed to (1) determine neuropsychological correlates of everyday memory deficits in children with ABI, and (2) investigate the effectiveness of a newly developed programme for their rehabilitation. We assessed everyday memory, verbal memory, attention and behaviour in 15 children with ABI. The children attended the everyday memory rehabilitation programme: six weekly sessions that involved diary training, self-instruction training and case examples. At the onset we found that everyday memory problems were related to impaired attention and behavioural difficulties. On completion of the programme there was a significant increase in children's abilities to perform daily routines that demanded recall of information and events. In addition, children used diaries more frequently. Moreover, significant secondary gains were found in attention and mood (anxiety and depression). In conclusion, the results provided preliminary evidence that our six week programme could be effective in reducing everyday memory difficulties and improving psychological well-being in children with ABI.

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“…Two years later, a review of cognitive and rehabilitation treatment studies by Laatsch et al (2007) resulted in evidence-based recommendations for the treatment of children and adolescents with acquired brain injury. The authors stated that serviceproviders should consider attention remediation to assist recovery ( Van"t Hooft et al, 2005, Butler & Copeland, 2002 and that service-providers should consider involving family-members as active treatment providers in the rehabilitation treatment plan . As far as the use of information-providing materials was concerned, the recommendation of Laatsch et al (2007) was that parents or guardians seen in an emergency department would most likely benefit from the provision of an information booklet (Ponsford et al, 2001) clarifying the symptoms of TBI and discussing how the symptoms should be handled.…”

Section: Rehabilitationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Direct approaches, where lost functions are trained and impaired skills are worked on by providing the maximum relevant stimulation to the person concerned, for example, through attention training ( Van"t Hooft et al, 2005).…”

Section: Rehabilitationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Long-term cognitive outcome of childhood traumatic brain injury

Jonsson¹

2010

PsycEXTRA Dataset

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There is limited knowledge of cognitive outcome extending beyond 5 years after childhood traumatic brain injury, CTBI. The main objectives of this thesis were to investigate cognitive outcome at 6 14 years after CTBI, and to evaluate if advancements in the neurosurgical care, starting 1992, did influence long-term outcome and early epidemiology. An additional aim was to study the relationship between early brain injury parameters and early functional outcome. Study 1 evaluated cognitive progress during 14 years after CTBI, over three neuropsychological assessments in 8 patients with serious CTBI. Study 2 used patient records to investigate early epidemiology, received rehabilitation and medical follow up in two clinical cohorts, n=82 and n=46, treated neurosurgically for CTBI before and after 1992. An exploratory cluster analysis was applied to analyse the relation between early brain injury severity parameters and early functional outcome. In Study 3, participants in the two cohorts, n=18 and n=23, treated neurosurgically for CTBI before and after 1992, were subject to an extensive neuropsychological assessment, 13 and 6 years after injury, respectively. Assessment results of the two cohorts were compared with each other and with controls. Data were analysed with multivariate analyses of variance. Results and discussion. There were significant long-term cognitive deficits of similar magnitude and character in the two cohorts with CTBI, treated before and after the advancements in neurosurgical care. At 6 14 years after injury, long-term deficits in verbal intellectual and executive functions were found, and were discussed in terms of their late maturation and a decreased executive control over verbal memory-functions after CTBI. Visuospatial functions had a slightly better long-term recovery. The amount of rehabilitation received was equally low in both cohorts. The length of time spent in intensive care and the duration of care in the respirator may have a stronger relationship to early outcome than does a single measure of level of consciousness at admission. Main conclusions are that cognitive deficits are apparent at longterm follow up, 6 13 years after neurosurgically treated CTBI, even after advancements in the neurosurgical care in Sweden. Measures of verbal IQ, verbal memory and executive functions were especially low while visuospatial intellectual functions appear to have a better long-term recovery.

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Beneficial effect from a cognitive training programme on children with acquired brain injuries demonstrated in a controlled study

Cited by 101 publications

References 22 publications

Cognitive rehabilitation for children with acquired brain injury

Cognitive rehabilitation for children with acquired brain injury

Rehabilitation of everyday memory deficits in paediatric brain injury: Self-instruction and diary training

Long-term cognitive outcome of childhood traumatic brain injury

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