Cognitive Disabilities Model

September 27, 2012
by Alisa

Classes

This week in class was very interesting. I learned about the cognitive disabilities model, and the guest speaker was Catherine Earhart, one of the developers of the Allen Diagnostic Module. As part of the assessment, clients get to make a greeting card! The assessment allows us to quantify the data using the Allen scale of levels and modes, which provide a specific activity analysis identifying the cognitive and motor requirements of meaningful activities that clients desire to do. This can give us a baseline of where and how you want to treat the clients next. It is important to know that there might be various factors that affect clients’ performance; therefore, the assessment data has to be collected throughout time before a pattern can be detected. Another assessment, Allen Cognitive Level Screen-5 (ACLS-5), clients perform three visual-motor tasks of leather lacing stitches with increasing difficulty. I did not have difficulty with the running stitch or the whipstitch, but I had great difficulty with the single cordovan stitch. Overall, it is an interesting assessment used can be used in mental health settings and other settings, too!

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