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How Speech-Language Therapists Work with People with Brain Injury

Inbal Eshel, MA, CCC-SLP
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When meeting a new patient with TBI, SLPs do both an formal evaluation — standardized cognitive and language tests and an informal evaluation — an in-depth interview with the person to hear what difficulties they are facing in their day-to-day life.

Posted on BrainLine July 19, 2012.

Produced by Victoria Tilney McDonough, Brian King, and Jared Schaubert, BrainLine.