Healthcare perceptions of persons with traumatic brain injuries across providers: shortcomings in the chronic phase of care.

Objective: This investigation sought to examine the perceptions of individuals with mild, moderate, and severe traumatic brain injury (TBIs) toward healthcare providers across rehabilitation contexts (acute, rehabilitation, and chronic).

Methods: The mCARE-TBI survey was distributed via Qualtrics throughout the US and Canada. Sixty-four survey responses met criteria for analysis.

Clinically Applicable Sociolinguistic Assessment for Cognitive-Communication Disorders.

Purpose: The third International Cognitive-Communication Disorders Conference was held in early 2022, providing an opportunity for researchers and clinicians to discuss management of cognitive-communication disorders (CCDs). Presentations that addressed social discourse initiated broader conversations about implementing sociolinguistic methods in research and clinical contexts. Given the heterogeneity of CCDs and sociocultural contexts, a person-centered approach is needed.

"I Avoid Interactions With Medical Professionals as Much as Possible Now": Health Care Experiences of Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injuries.

Purpose: This study examined the perceptions of health care experiences by individuals with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) across the recovery continuum, regarding care received by a variety of health care providers following their TBI. It sought to identify whether perceptions differed across mild, moderate, and severe participants, as well as acute, subacute, and chronic recovery.

Method: Eighteen individuals with TBI were interviewed, using the Sydney Psychosocial Reintegration Scale-Second Edition (SPRS-2) and a semistructured interview about health care perceptions.

Virtual INSIGHT: Improving natural social interaction: Group reHabilitation after traumatic brain injury.

Background: There is a growing body of literature that indicates positive outcomes of group treatment approaches to intervention for communication difficulties in chronic traumatic brain injury (TBI). The published research to date examines face-to-face group intervention.

Aim: This study draws on one of these approaches, 'Improving Natural Social Interaction: Group reHabilitation after Traumatic brain injury' (INSIGHT), and examines the adaptation of this program to a virtual setting.

Anger and aspirations: Linguistic analysis of identity after traumatic brain injury.

It has been well established that positive identity construction or reconstruction is important for positive rehabilitation outcomes after Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Such identities are constructed and communicated through interactional exchanges. In this study, the tools of systemic functional linguistics are used to investigate how language was used to create and establish identities for three participants with a severe TBI.

Discourse Analysis of Humor After Traumatic Brain Injury.

Purpose Individuals with cognitive communication difficulties after traumatic brain injury (TBI) often experience difficulties with social communication. Humor is a sociolinguistic skill that requires social, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral skills and, when used effectively, may serve to enhance one's social relationships. There is a paucity of research related to the use of humor in individuals with TBI.

Improving natural social interaction: Group rehabilitation after Traumatic Brain Injury.

This pilot study investigates the outcomes of a group treatment approach for communication difficulties after Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). This programme, entitled INSIGHT, focuses on group interactions and is designed to manage the various behaviours and impulses that may manifest with this injury. Additionally, INSIGHT promotes natural and authentic communication, encourages flexibility in interaction, and is client-centred.

Expression of masculine identity in individuals with a traumatic brain injury.

Primary Objective: This research seeks to examine and describe how four males with a traumatic brain injury (TBI) use language to negotiate their masculine identities.

Research Design: Qualitative research methods were employed with a 'case study' design that allows for a detailed description of the cases, and the interactions examined.

Methods And Procedures: The tools of inquiry applied included a topic analysis, as well as linguistic analysis methods that incorporated the theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics.