The CABI Assessment is designed to assist cognitive retraining specialists in determining what skills and at what level the survivor tends to break down. Since beginning to administer the assessment, I have noticed an interesting pattern emerge in high functioning survivors. Some survivors tend to do extremely well on the individual sections, but have an extremely difficult time with the application. Other survivors have a very difficult time with the sections that assess individual skills, yet do very well on the application portion of the assessment. Your textbook describes many of the deficits associated with executive functioning.
Repair refers to the ability to revise a plan or to establish alternatives.
This process is very difficult for a brain injury survivor to learn and implement. As we mentioned last week, survivors tend to be fairly concrete and want to do things exactly as they were done before the injury. Awareness deals with the ability to make insightful statements about behavior and to modify behavior if appropriate. Perseveration is the inappropriate repetition of a behavior or thought. For instance, the survivor might continue to ask a question during a retraining session even though the question has been answered several times.