Creating Appropriate Clinical Guidelines for The Bilingual Population with Acquired Brain Injuries

<p>While there is a growing bilingual demographic in the United States, relatively little is known about treating this population should they experience a brain injury. This is a growing area of interest, as research has demonstrated that the acquisition of a second language promotes neuroplastic changes that then impact brain functioning pre- and post-brain-injury. Given bilingualism’s cognitive complexity, clinicians are left with challenges on how best to tailor treatment for brain-injured bilingual populations. Therefore, the focus of this review was to provide clinical recommendations to clinicians performing assessments with bilingual individuals with acquired brain injuries. The goal was for the guidelines provided to aid in the augmentation of appropriate strategies for neurorehabilitation to maximize linguistic, cognitive, and communicative improvement, leading to social readaptation and a better quality of life.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Psy.D. Doctor of Clinical Psychology

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation - Public Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Clinical Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2021

Author dc:creator

• Pena, Sophia L

Contributors dc:contributor

• Elizabeth M. Lane, Ph.D.
• Eric Rosen, Ph.D.

• Bilingual
• Acquired Brain Injury
• Clinical Psychology
• Cognitive Psychology
• Other Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/diss/574

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:diss-1620