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     While taking a Neuro Aspects course in occupational therapy school, I was required to do a clinical simulation where I administered the SLUMS, which is a screening tool used to identify cognitive impairment. The client that I gave the cognitive screening to was a 61 year old female who had a recent stroke. The client also had COVID. When working as an occupational therapist, cognition is a big part of your practice. Cognition is considered to be the ability to perceive and organize information to enable the person to process, learn, and generalize information. It is how your brain thinks and processes things for them to make sense to you. The SLUMS assessment in which I delivered assessed cognition, and also memory which is a cognitive skill. Memory is the brain's ability to encode, store, and retrieve information. Occupational therapists have a big role in working with individuals who have a cognitive disorder. A big part of this is educating the client on the disor...

In order to enhance my learning on acquired brain injuries, I decided to read about a man named Tyson who got a TBI (traumatic brain injury) in a boating accident. The article was titled "I got hit by a boat and I want to share my story".  This was written by a 22 year old man who was in college at the time of the accident. He was an avid fisher and on one of his breaks from school he and his dad had taken the boat out to go fishing. In the story he describes what happened from his mom's point of view, as he does not remember the accident or the time immediately following the accident because he was in a coma. He sustained many injuries from the accident, one of them being a TBI.  I choose to read this story because this type of accident could happen to anyone. Tyson was just a normal college kid going fishing with his dad when the unexpected happened. In his story, he describes the shock that his mother was in. Nobody thinks about these types of accidents happening to so...

         In order to learn more about cognitive impairments, I decided to read the article "A Typical Day with Mild Cognitive Impairment", an article published in the National Library of Medicine. I choose to read this source because I felt that this source could give me insight on what it would actually be like to live with a mild cognitive impairment. I wanted to be able to understand how a person with a cognitive impairment may feel. I wanted to learn what challenges them and what makes them uncomfortable or uneasy due to their condition. You can learn about the science behind cognitive impairments and symptoms associated with the conditions all day, but what you don't learn is how it makes the person feel with the condition. This source definitely gave me insight on what it would be like to have a mild cognitive impairment. I feel that the knowledge I gained from this source will allow me to be able to emphasize with future clients with cognitive impairments...