Innovations in Cognitive Therapy
Everyone Can Succeed’s founder has created and the nonprofit has tested a new intervention for Right-Hemisphere Ischemic Stroke. The therapy directly addresses cognitive impairments resulting from this particular type of stroke including diminished attention span, impaired visuospatial abilities, difficulty performing tasks in order, and difficulties in numeracy/calculating skills. Based on treatment group results from IRB-approved exploratory clinical trials, the novel therapy is beneficial to patients. The therapy improved short-term memory, visuospatial processing, and sequencing skills. Patient comments about their successful outcomes are presented in the video below.
As the right hemisphere is primarily responsible for visual imagery and spatial abilities, the therapy focuses on providing cognitive stimulation using graphic representations and visual imagery. A 2016 paper published in Neuroscience stated this type of exercise, “has the potential to promote working memory capabilities, which is associated with the functional plasticity of the common neural substrates.”
The therapeutic modules we tested are delivered in a deliberate sequence that enables patients to progressively boost function. Following the success witnessed during the trials, doctors asked Everyone Can Succeed’s founder to work on development of an experimental therapy for dementia.
Dementia - Taking On a Difficult Challenge
Everyone Can Succeed is presently providing a novel therapy it’s founder developed to treat Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA), a particular type of dementia. After six months of treatment with our first patient, neurological assessments indicated the new therapy had helped slow the patient’s decline. “We are thrilled that with your dementia therapy, tests show the decline from her Primary Progressive Aphasia has slowed,” her husband stated. One neuropsychologist in our local area has informed us he has twenty more patients for us to treat in trials.