Team Approach for Maximizing Neurorehabilitation - 8/13/2025
Course Overview
There is a significant amount of research that proves a comprehensive, holistic, and team approach to rehabilitation is best after neurological injuries. Implementing this approach to rehab may be difficult for healthcare workers who have typically used a medical model or treatment approach such as nursing, separate from therapies, and separate from physician care.
This course provides an overview of evidence-based team approaches from neurorehabilitation. Specific examples of case studies and team treatment plans are presented throughout this course. There is a focus on given participants therapeutic tools and ideas to take back to their organizations.
Learning Outcomes
Upon the completion of this course, the learner should be able to:
- Recognize differences between types of approaches for neuro rehab.
- Select 5 important types of communication in neuro rehab.
- Identify 6 members of the neuro rehab team and their role within the team.
- Recognize 3 examples of team approach interventions.
- Identify 6 characteristics of a good team.
About the Author/Presenter
Charity Shelton, MS, CCC-SLP, CBIST, has been a speech-language pathologist at Missouri Rehabilitation Center/ University of Missouri Health Care, in Mt Vernon, MO, for over 15 years. Charity specializes in the evaluation and treatment of individuals with neurological injuries and treats communication, cognitive, and swallowing deficits in those individuals. She has written and published research studies in the Journal of Cognitive Rehabilitation and Brain Injury, and she is currently participating in research studying noninvasive brain stimulation for treatment of memory and attention disorders in adults with traumatic brain injury.
Charity is a Brain Injury Specialist and Trainer through the Brain Injury Association of Missouri and has been heavily involved in advocacy for persons with brain injuries and their families over her career, including being a member and Chair of the Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council. Charity is an experienced presenter who has given numerous presentations at the local, state, and national levels. She regularly attends and participates in local and state continuing education events, further improving her knowledge of neuro-rehabilitation and networking and learning information from other professionals in the field.
Audience/Accreditations and Approvals
Colibri Healthcare
This course is designed for the following healthcare professions (select your profession for details):
Physical Therapy
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