Best Practices for Treating Patients with Cognitive Linguistic Impairments is organized by HomeCEU.
Course Description:
Functional and meaningful therapy is key in an effective dementia treatment program model. This presentation will give specific examples of therapy activities to address multiple goals. Caregiver education examples and environmental modifications appropriate for patients with dementia will complete the discussion. If you are a clinician wanting the latest in evidence based practice, this session is for you!
Course Goals:
This course is intended to instruct the professional on performing functional therapy tasks guided by evidence-based practice and document in a supportive and skilled manner.
Course Objectives:
• The learner will identify objective assessments for use with patients with dementia.
• Identify ICD and CPT codes for use by SLPs in diagnosis and treatment of cognitive communication disorders
• Identify each evidence-based intervention approach.
• Identify characteristics of EBP techniques.
• Identify proper skilled documentation requirements
• Identify functional activities to address through EBP techniques
• Identify functional therapy sessions according to EBP approaches
• Recognize how to Effectively document treatment to specify a skill