Neuro Occupational Therapist Bristol

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01934 712 100 emma@emrehab.com

Assessments

• The Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test 3
      (RBMT-3)
• Loewenstein Occupational Therapy
      Cognitve Assessment (LOTCA)
• Developmental Test Of Visual Perception
      (DTVP-A)
• The Awareness Of Social Inference Test (TASIT)
• Test of Everyday Attention (TEA)
• Rookwood Driving Assessment Battery
• Assessment Of Motor And Process Skills (AMPS)
• Behavioural Assessment Of The Dysexecutive
      Syndrome (BADS)
• Cambridge Prospective Memory Test

SCREENS FOR:

Disorders of planning, organisation, problem solving, setting priorities, and attention and can measure improvements over time. Can predict everyday problems associated with dysexecutive syndrome following traumatic brain injury.

The assessment battery includes a 20 item Dysexecutive Questionnaire (DEX) that samples the range of problems in four broad areas of likely change: emotional or personality changes, motivational, behaviour or cognitive.

AGE GROUP: 16–87 years

LENGTH OF TIME TO ADMINISTER: 40 minutes

DEVELOPED BY: Barbra A Wilson, Nick Alderman, Paul W Burgess, Hazel Emslie
and Jonathan J. Evans

YEAR: 1996

NORMS: UK

The term ‘Dysexecutive Syndrome’ includes disorders of planning, organisation, problem solving, setting priorities, and attention. It is one of the major areas of cognitive deficit that can impede functional recovery and the ability to respond to rehabilitation programmes following brain injury.

Specifically assessing the skills and demands of everyday life, it is sensitive to capacities affected by frontal lobe damage emphasising those usually exercised in everyday situations:

• Temporal Judgement
• Cognitive flexibility and Inhibition of response
• Practical problem solving
• Strategy Formation
• Ability to Plan
• Task Scheduling