A head injury is a difficult challenge for an individual, their close ones and for professionals, who work with the person. The wide range of physical and psychological consequences, which are often permanent, underdeveloped methods of work and the fact that each patient is different, pose a great challenge for choosing the right treatment. Given the complexity and variability of possible deficiencies that often accompany an individual throughout their life, many of them may remain unrecognized. This issue requires multidisciplinary knowledge in the assessment of individuals’ abilities and needs, as well as a focused treatment to overcome their deficiencies and compensate their strong and weak points. There is a growing number of researches that testify to the effectiveness of cognitive training as an approach, which helps to improve cognitive abilities as well as essential life skills. Our research is designed as a case study, the subject of which is a special educational provision of an adult after a traumatic head injury in the post-acute period. In the present study, the assessment of a person's cognitive functioning and the implementation of cognitive training were performed. The purpose of the research was to use the tools applicable to special and rehabilitation educators in order to examine the effects of specific multi-domain cognitive training of memory, attention, visual perception, language and executive functions, on mentioned cognitive spheres. We also focused on the alternation of using different compensatory strategies in the person involved. The results of the study showed improvements in visual and auditory memory, delayed recall memory, auditory attention, maintained attention and mechanical vocabulary. After the training, we detected the use of previously non-existent compensatory strategies in the test subject, such as visual presentation of the verbally given information, verbal description of visual images and the use of a standardized scheme for memorizing information.
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