Knowledge translation in ABI rehabilitation: A model for consolidating and applying the evidence for cognitive-communication interventions

Brain Injury

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 486-508

  MacDonald, Sheila ^a   Wiseman Hakes, Catherine ^b  

^a Sheila MacDonald and Associates   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive communication; Communication; Communication therapy; Efficacy; Evidence based practice; Intervention; Knowledge transfer; Knowledge translation; Speech therapy; Speech language pathology; Speech language therapy; Treatment evidence

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY; ATTENTION; AUDITORY REHABILITATION; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE COMMUNICATION INTERVENTION REVIEW FRAMEWORK; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; KNOWLEDGE; MANAGER; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLICATION; READING; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH THERAPY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAINING; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VOCATION; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

EID: 77649095665     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699050903518118     Document Type: Review

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