Cognitive Function Development Therapy
CFD Therapy
Increasingly Challenging
Varied Activities to
Repeatedly Target
Specific Skills
Adaptive to Client Needs
and Situation
Delivered through
Personal Interaction
TransformED’s cognitive function development therapy utilizes a variety of commercially-available and proprietary games and procedures to drive neurocognitive changes.
Activities are designed to present a challenge to an individual’s current cognitive function level in a fun way and allow for immediate positive reinforcement or other therapist feedback. As the targeted cognitive function develops, the therapeutic activity requirements can be intensified, and the activity can be combined with other tasks. The client gives the required outputs per the therapist’s instructions. Outputs are frequently varied between verbal responses, written responses, physical responses, or a combination thereof.
TransformED’s cognitive function development therapy utilizes a variety of commercially-available and proprietary games and procedures to drive neurocognitive changes. Activities are designed to present a challenge to an individual’s current cognitive function level in a fun way and allow for immediate positive reinforcement or other therapist feedback. As the targeted cognitive function develops, the therapeutic activity requirements can be intensified, and the activity can be combined with other tasks. The client gives the required outputs per the therapist’s instructions. Outputs are frequently varied between verbal responses, written responses, physical responses, or a combination thereof.
Targeting the Primary Cognitive Functions
Working memory is our system for temporarily storing and managing information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension. It is also involved in information-processing functions such as encoding, storing, and retrieving data.
One way to develop working memory is to do mental calculations: Turn over a playing card. The client adds a number (i.e. 5) to the number on the card and says the answer aloud. At the same time, the client reaches across his or her body and touches their left knee with their right hand if the card is red or their right knee with their left hand if the card is black.
Attention – our attention system is made up of selective, sustained and divided attention which all have to do with being able to focus appropriately.
Amidst deliberate distractions and at a fixed pace, the client keeps working on a task, such as circling all of the round shapes on a sheet with a variety of distractions.
Memory is our system for encoding, storing, managing, and retrieving information for later use.
At the beginning of a session, the trainee rolls the Story Cubes and creates a story. At the end of the session, the trainee puts the cubes in the correct order and retells the story.