Life-Skills Therapist
HELP WITH ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING
Carl Michael Abercrombie LST
(470) 513-0285
caber3824@gmail.com
BS Psychology, COTA (Certified Occupational Therapy Aide)
CBIS (Certified Brain Injury Specialist) 2001 #411
- As a life-skills therapist, my one and only goal is to assist brain injury survivors (all types, including stroke) to regain their independence.
- No brain injury is the same — my goal is to develop a strategy based on an individual’s needs, and specific deficits as well each person’s specific abilities.
- Main tool of my trade —
Compensatory strategies:- Help enable a survivor to perform tasks such as activities of daily living: independent living, work, school, child care, and others.
- Take their deficits into consideration and develop a strategy to overcome those deficits while completing the task in a safe manner.
- Goals and course of action —
- Work with the survivor to develop a list of goals, and the obstacles standing in the way of them.
- Devise and test different strategies to compensate for the deficits and reach the goals safely.
- Most importantly, assist survivors in learning to develop their own strategies in the future.
- The sooner after the trauma that the survivor starts working on these strategies the better.
- The more the survivor is involved or in charge of their recovery the better.
- All compensatory strategies are steeped in safety first.
- I want to help survivors become as independent as possible, as soon as possible.
- It’s never too early or too late to start.
Contact:
Carl Michael Abercrombie LST
(470) 513-0285
caber3824@gmail.com
Brain Injury Survivor: May 1993
(In a coma; inpatient and outpatient; 7 months total)
Returned to work October 1994
Returned to college January 1995
Graduated December 1999, BS Psychology
COTA (Certified Occupational Therapy Aide)
CBIS (Certified Brain-Injury Specialist) 2001 # 411
Brain Injury Peer Visitor 2008 to present