John Heinz Rehab has been a pioneer in offering comprehensive services in the highly specialized field of clinical/forensic neuropyschology. Our innovative program offers a range of assessment and treatment services for patients with deficits in cognitive ( brain-behavior) function.
| Neuropsychological assessment is a critical part of assisting people who have changes in thinking skills or behaviors due to: | |
• Anoxia; Sleep Apnea |
• Multiple Sclerosis |
• Cerebrovascular Disease (Stroke) |
• Neoplasms (Tumors) |
• Chronic Fatigue: Fibromyalgia |
• Neurotoxicity |
• Dementia (Alzheimer's / Pick's Disease) |
• Post Concussion Syndrome |
• Developmental / Learning Disorders |
• Traumatic Brain Injury |
| • Infections (Meningitis) | |
Programs and Services
| Services Offered | |
• Forensic services including expert testimony |
• Sports Concussion |
Neuropsychological assessment helps form a picture of a patient’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses. Additionally, it is a basic diagnostic tool for situations where other tests are inconclusive.
| Assessments help identify problems with: | |
• Abstract reasoning |
• Motor skills |
• Attention / concentration |
• Organization |
• Cognitive flexibility |
• Problem solving |
• Information processing speed / reaction time |
• Personality |
• Intelligence |
• Sensory perception |
| • Language skills | • Symptom validity |
• Learning |
• Visual-spatial ability |
| • Memory (auditory, visual, tactile) | • Vocational preferences |
| • Mood | |
| Assessments include: | |
• Medical history |
• A detailed summary report that describes: - The patient’s degree of cognitive impairment and probably effects on everyday functioning - The patient’s baseline of function (to allow for comparisons over time) - A plan for cognitive and behavioral rehabilitation treatment, remedial education or vocational rehabilitation. |
• Observation |
|
| • Specialized testing | |
Cognitive Rehabilitation
Cognitive rehabilitation is designed to maximize a patient’s physical abilities, functional skills, cognitive strengths and behavioral self-management.
| Cognitive Rehabilitiation include: | |
•Practice and repetition of foundation skills, such as attention/concentration, reaction time, visual processing and the ability to organize new information
|
• Counseling services for both patients and their families |
• Training in complex behaviors, such as dressing, cooking, balancing a checkbook and operating an automobile |
• Inpatient care and outpatient follow-up |
| • Generalization of skills into "real life" situations to maximize each individual’s level of functional independence | • Assessment of interests and retained academic functions in addition to counseling services to assist in return to work or academic activities |
For more information please call toll free 888 JH-REHAB, locally (570) 826-3771 or fax (570) 830-8917.