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This study presents a method for assessing subjective organization (SO) after
brain injury and techniques for planning cognitive rehabilitation therapy based
on the survivor's SO ability. Eighty-seven college students, 50 persons with
traumatic brain injury (TBI), and 30 participants with specific learning
disability (SLD) learned two overlapping lists of unrelated nouns in which half
of the second list were words that the person had learned on the first list. The
study assessed whether different patterns of recall for the overlapping words
versus the new words on the second list would discriminate persons with brain
injury relative to college students and persons with SLD. The results indicated
that college students and the SLD participants showed significantly diminished
recall of overlapping words on the second list. However, the TBI participants
showed significantly improved recall of the overlapping words. The results
indicated that this task provides a simple diagnostic assessment of a
participant's SO ability. The results also suggested that a TBI survivor's level
of SO may moderate the success of prevocational cognitive rehabilitation
therapies.

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