Synergic Therapy
Social | Executive Functioning | Behavior | Speech-Language
Fundamental Neurological Skills
Focused attention,
divided attention, sustained attention refocusing, situational awareness, shifting attention
Stop-think-plan-
do, basic thinking processes including; reasoning, judgment, decision-making, problem solving, inferencing
Memory
visualization, prior
knowledge, vocabulary, metacognitive skills to understand what you see, hear, read. Discourse comp, Listening comp, reading comprehension,
visual comp
Visual closure, discrimination, visual memory, visual sequencing, visual-motor processing, auditory-visual integration, visucognition
Using pragmatic
skills to communicate with others daily. Meeting one's needs, socializing, participating in groups, learning skills, and following the rules of conversation
Contextual knowledge, factual knowledge, schemas for events and their relationships, experiencing and understanding social events
Most important
processes for learning. Understanding new information by connecting it to prior knowledge or experiences. Short term memory, long term memory, working
memory
Auditory processing,
visual processing, sequential processing, phonological processing, language processing, sensory processing
The efficiency and
ability to retrieve information from memory and respond effectively. Recall objects, retrieval fluency, rapid naming, association fluency
The time it takes
one to understand and respond orally, in writing, or physically to perceived sensory information. Can be improved through cognitive training