Explore and Learn
Empowering you with tools, insights, and strategies to navigate burnout, challenging behaviors,
trauma-informed care, and Trauma-Guided Communication.
Beyond Burnout
Trauma-Informed Care
Building Balance
Educators
OT/PT/SLP
Family/Friends
Survivors
Think
Cognitive
Understanding, retaining
and using information.
Cognition
Cognitive skills are needed to process information. In order to learn, retain and use our knowledge, we need to be able to use the following skills effectively:
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Attend to incoming information (sustained, selective and divided attention).
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Quickly process details (processing speed).
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Remember what we hear, see or read (working, short-term and long-term memory).
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Decide what to do with the information (reasoning and problem solving skills).
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Talk
Linguistic
Using language to communicate.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the study of language. In order to communicate effectively we need to have a good command of these language skills:
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Form: the sounds, words, and sentences (language) we use to convey information (phonology, morphology and syntax).
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Content: putting sounds, words, and sentences together in a way that has meaning (semantics).
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Use: following the socially driven rules to utilize language for a purpose (pragmatics).
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Do
Function
Planning, initiating and completing tasks.
Executive Functions
Executive functions are higher level cognitive functions that continue to develop into early
adulthood. These skills are essential to:
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Organize/Set Goals
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Plan/Prioritize
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Initiate/Implement
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Following through
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Evaluate/Make changes
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Self-monitor
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Control emotions
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Putting It All Together
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Successful functioning is dependent on effective communication.
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Effective communication relies on fluid cognition.
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Cognitive stress makes thinking and reasoning more difficult.
