OT2 - DYNAMIC INTERACTIONAL APPROACH

Dynamic Interactional Approach

This approach has been used with all types of acquired brain injury including trauma and stroke, as well as some mental health and developmental disability populations.

Dynamic Interactional Approach

The goal is to restore functional occupational performance for persons with cognitive dysfunction.

Cognition & Cognitive Strategies

Key feature of Toglia’s FOR

Cognition

Involves a person’s capacity to acquire and use information to respond to activity demands, such as information processing, learning and generalization.

Information processing

Begins with sensory input and continues to organize, assimilate, and integrate new information with previous experiences.

Dynamic Systems Approach

Cognition works as a system and cannot be divided into separate sub-skills.

Brain plasticity/ Neuroplasticity

Brain forms new neural pathways to relearn the skills of daily living in spite of injury.

Multicontext Approach

Toglia’s (2011) Dynamic Interactional Model of Cognition posits that cognition is a product of the dynamic interaction between the person (his or her capacities, self-awareness, and personal context), the activity at hand, the strategies used, and the environment in which the activity occurs.