Treatment efficacy of social communication skills training after traumatic brain injury: a randomized treatment and deferred treatment controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of a replicable group treatment program to improve social communication skills after traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Design: Randomized treatment and deferred treatment controlled trial, with follow-up at 3, 6, and 9 months post-treatment.

Setting: Community.

Social communication skills in persons with post-acute traumatic brain injury: three perspectives.

Objective: To describe social communication skills problems identified by individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) compared to significant other (SO) and clinician ratings; and associations between these skills and participation outcome measures.

Design: Cohort study.

Methods: Sixty individuals with TBI > or = 1 year post-injury were administered measures of social communication, societal participation, social integration and life satisfaction.

Evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation: updated review of the literature from 1998 through 2002.

Objective: To update the previous evidence-based recommendations of the Brain Injury Interdisciplinary Special Interest Group of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine for cognitive rehabilitation of people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke, based on a systematic review of the literature from 1998 through 2002.

Data Sources: PubMed and Infotrieve literature searches were conducted using the terms attention, awareness, cognition, communication, executive, language, memory, perception, problem solving, and reasoning combined with each of the terms rehabilitation, remediation, and training. Reference lists from identified articles were reviewed and a bibliography listing 312 articles was compiled.