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.
Produced by Victoria Tilney McDonough, Brian King, and Jared Schaubert, BrainLine.
About the author: Inbal Eshel, MA, CCC-SLP
Inbal Eshel, MA, CCC-SLP is the lead traumatic brain injury speech-language pathologist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. She provides diagnostic and therapeutic interventions aimed at minimizing cognitive and language deficits and maximizing quality of life.
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