Screening Adult Nerologic Populations : A Step-by-Step Instruction Manual

Includes screening forms!

Occupational therapists who work with adults with neurological problems must be able to appropriately and quickly use a variety of screening methods to pinpoint deficit areas and assess how these have impaired the person's daily life function. This comprehensive book compiles the most common occupational therapy screening methods used with adults with such neurological conditions as traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, cerebrovascular accident, multiple sclerosis, amyotropic lateral sclerosis, dementia, and Parkinson's disease.

Presented as a step-by-step instruction manual, the book includes copies of all screens and is presented in an easy-to-use format that facilitates its use in the clinic and in home health and community-based settings. It is also an ideal text for students, clearly outlining how to administer neurological screens in occupational therapy practice. Extensive use of photographs enhances the instructions and clearly shows practitioners how to use the various techniques.

This is the only book available that compiles such an extensive variety of neurological screening methods into a single publication developed specifically to support this aspect of practice.

Sharon A. Gutman, PhD, OTR/L, teaches in the Division of Occupational Therapy at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York. She has also held faculty positions at Thomas Jefferson University and New York University. She brings more than 10 years of specialty experience with people with traumatic brain injury and the use of neurological screens to her writing of this book.

Alison B. Schonfeld, OTR/L, co-taught classes with Sharon A. Gutman as her neuroscience laboratory assistant and has 10 years of experience with low-vision patients and with neurologically involved patients, including those with traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular accident, acquired brain injury, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis.