1. Management of cognitive-communication disorders is an integral part of SLPs’ scope of practice. SLPs are uniquely trained to manage these disorders with clinical knowledge in the interaction between cognition and communication.
2. Managing cognitive-communication disorders is an interdisciplinary endeavor.
3. Cognitive-communication intervention does not include communication intervention for aphasia or motor-speech disorders following TBI.
4. There are many approaches to cognitive-communication intervention—behavioral approaches, skill training, process-specific approaches, and multi-modal approaches.
5. Numerous service delivery models exist—in-patient medical rehabilitation, long-term care, outpatient care, job coaching, school-based services, day-treatment, transitional living programs, or individual and group therapy.
6. Improvements in impairments may or may not facilitate a change in an individual’s activity or participation level and vice versa.
7. The ultimate goal of cognitive-communication intervention is to achieve the highest level of communicative participation in everyday living.
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