Cognitive Priming for Stroke Tele-rehabilitation

Cognitive rehabilitation will be OT-led, one-on-one sessions focused on teaching cognitive strategies and their application to a broad set of activities/settings. The goal is to facilitate cognitive skill learning and generalization, by applying the new cognitive strategies to the participant's performance of home-based and community-based activities (taught through the subsequent OT portion of the intervention).

OT upper extremity rehabilitation will have 2 components: task-practice and metacognitive strategy training. The task-practice involves a patient repetitively practicing stroke-impaired movement skills within the context of a functional task to promote recovery of the impaired skills. THE task practice sessions will be coached/guided by the therapist through a metacognitive strategy training process which is based on the Cognitive Orientation to Occupational Performance (CO-OP) approach aimed at enhancing self-management during home and community living tasks.