24TRA579 Attention Skills in Brain Injury Recovery

 

 

Date:     Monday 25th November 2024
Time:     7 - 8 pm
Venue:  Online via Zoom

Target Audience: Suitable for Primary & Post Primary School Teachers

Attention and Concentration are important for learning. We need to attend to and concentrate on things in order to understand and remember them.

This workshop will help you to:

• Understand the invisible difficulties that young people with an Acquired Brain Injury experience.
• Support these students by using appropriate strategies to support their attention and concentration.
• Learn strategies that optimise attention and concentration skills

Content:

• Strategies to optimise attention (Fatigue, timetabling, pacing, technique).
• On your marks: Getting your student’s attention.
• Overcoming problems with attention (Executive Function, Processing Speed,
• Working Memory, Cognitive Stamina)
• Training attention (Mindfulness, functional activity)

Presenter: Dr Brian McClean

Presentation on Attention Skills in Brain Injury Recovery delivered by Dr. Brian McClean, Clinical Neuropsychologist, Acquired brain Injury Ireland.