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94| Neuropsychological Rehabilitation After Acquired Brain Injury – A Conversation With Dr. Dana Wong

Navigating Neuropsychology

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Aphasia Recovery

There's this negatively accelerating curve where people make most recovery early on and tends to slow down, but people do recover for six, nine, 12 months. Do you prefer to start these interventions as soon as possible or is there kind of an optimal window that you target? Yeah. So I think the answer is it depends on the intervention. Aphasia rehab needs to be quite high. Starting early with that is important. And by then they're back home. Physically they've healed quite a lot. They've kind of adjusted back home. Medically they're stable, but they're really noticing those cognitive difficulties in their everyday life. It's never too late.

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