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Clinicians -- Your subscription gives you access to all of our applications!
Persons with impairment -- If you want to do this therapy program yourself and
we do not have a provider in your area, call us at 317-257-9672 or
email at info@neuropsychonline.net, to make arrangements.
Treatment
We are most proud to present our web-based Neuropsychonline Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy System. We have developed and provided software for cognitive rehabilitation for over twenty years with our PSSCogRehab System (still available at -- www.psychological-software.com --) that many therapists from around the world have utilized with good success. In developing our new Neuropsychonline Cognitive Rehabiltiation Therapy System we applied everything we have learned over that time period to make this system the very best it can be for the treatment of our patients with brain function impairment from whatever cause. Please take our Video Tour and read our About_Us and Weblog pages for much more detail and examples of these applications. If you are in need of this therapy and there are none of our providers in your area, call 317-257-9672 to learn how you can do our therapy.
The NeuroPsychOnline (NPO) Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy System consists of six Tracks of exercises designed to improve the user’s cognitive skills. The Tracks are:
- Attention Skills ( 12 exercises, 4 levels each )
- Executive Skills ( 12 exercises, 4 levels each )
- Memory Skills ( 12 exercises, 4 levels each ) Sample exercise - Track 03: Memory Skills - Colormatch (requires FlashPlayer)
- Visuospatial Skills ( 12 exercises, 4 levels each )
- Problem Solving Skills ( 12 exercises, 3 or 4 levels each )
- Communication Skills ( 12 exercises, 3 or 4 levels each )
Persons with impairment -- If you want to do this therapy program yourself and
we do not have a provider in your area, call us at 317-257-9672 or
email at info@neuropsychonline.net, to make arrangements.
Each Track contains 12 Tasks (72 Tasks altogether), arranged in an order so that the most basic of cognitive skills are addressed first in therapy. As the user progresses, the Tasks evolve to become more complex and challenging. In addition, 68 of the Tasks contain four levels of difficulty and four contain three levels.
A therapist subscriber can operate the therapy system on an automated or a manual basis. The automated mode consists of a predetermined therapy protocol in which the patient is systematically presented with the entire therapy program in a hierarchy that we use at the Neuroscience Center and which was utilized in our research. The manual mode allows the therapist to select from a menu the exercise they want to do with a patient, in a face-to-face session, and/or set up as a prescription that includes the Tasks that the therapist wants the patient to do at home between therapy sessions. To do the latter therapists must assist their patient in converting their registration from a patient seen in the office only to a patient subscriber. There is a link under the Administration Menu within the Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy section that will facilitate this procedure.
A prescription that the therapist could set up for a patient subscriber to do at home could contain from one to six Tasks at a time. Only one Task within a particular Track can be assigned in a prescription. A patient’s advancement through levels and also through Tasks is dependent on their performance on the Tasks. They must meet performance criteria to pass a run and they must pass on three consecutive runs to totally pass a level. Totally passing a level means that particular level will not be presented again. The patient is automatically advanced, by the system, to the next level or Task if they perform well enough on a Task. However, the therapist can always control, manually, how a patient advances through the system if they want to deviate from the established protocol.
Each task is set up in a game like format. To do therapy the patient simply plays the game and tries to do the very best they can. We have tried to make the Tasks fun to do so that therapy will be a more enjoyable experience, however, even the Tasks that are not so much fun must be completed in order for the patient’s skills to develop properly. If a patient already has some skill in a certain area and they get assigned a Task in that area they should pass through it fairly rapidly and move on to the next level.
We conduct comprehensive Therapist Training Workshops on a regular basis that teach our intended method of conducting cognitive rehabilitation therapy with the Neuropsychonline system.
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