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The Feasibility Of Using Metacognitive Strategy Training To Improve Performance, Foster Participation, And Reduce Impairment Following Neurological Injury, Timothy J. Wolf May 2016

The Feasibility Of Using Metacognitive Strategy Training To Improve Performance, Foster Participation, And Reduce Impairment Following Neurological Injury, Timothy J. Wolf

Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Executive function is central to our ability to learn and participate in everyday life activities and rehabilitation outcomes for individuals with executive dysfunction after neurological injury are poor. The impairments and performance challenges these individuals experience are typically not identified appropriately so they often do not receive adequate rehabilitation and can have significant challenges returning to complex everyday life activities. The vast majority of rehabilitation efforts to support individuals with neurological injuries with executive dysfunction are based on a restoration model that aims to improve cognitive function with the expectation that these gains will translate to everyday life. The available …