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🧠👀 Boost awareness (even when you forget)
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Last week, we shared our NEWEST blog: What SLPs Need to Know: Awareness. It's full of free resources (like PROMs), practical strategies, and research insights. We were thrilled to see your positive feedback and shares—thank you! 🙌 Tactus includes a small team of SLPs who are passionate about creating research-backed resources for SLPs. That includes every blog post, handout, and activity inside the Virtual Rehab Center—so your kind words truly mean the world to us. 💛 💬 “Oops, I Forgot...”Ever had one of these moments? You dive into a treatment and suddenly think:
Me too. It's easy to jump right into a therapy task and forget these steps, but it's so important to build that insight! That’s exactly why we built metacognitive awareness tools right into many of the Virtual Rehab Center's cognitive treatments. How the Virtual Rehab Center Automates AwarenessThe Tactus Virtual Rehab Center walks patients through pre- and post-task scales with questions that support metacognitive awareness (a.k.a. insight). Here's how it works: ↩️ Pre-Treatment Predictions & Strategy Selection ▶️ They Engage in the Treatment ↪️ Post-Treatment Ratings & Strategy Reflection 🧠 It’s all grounded in evidence-based executive function practices, helping patients predict, perform, and self-assess. And of course, all patient ratings are reported in the auto-generated SOAP notes after each session!
💻 Ready to give it a try?Sign up for a FREE trial of the Virtual Rehab Center today for access to:
👉 Start your free trial now and let us know what you think! Thanks for supporting our mission to make metacognitive awareness practical, effective, and easy to implement in therapy. 💪 Keep up the great work helping your patients build insight—one reflection at a time. All the best, Megan P.S. Can your whole team or organization join the Virtual Rehab Center? Yes! Learn more about group plans here or reply to this email! |
Megan @ Tactus Therapy
I'm a speech-language pathologist & co-founder of Tactus. Tactus offers evidence-based apps for aphasia therapy and lots of free resources, articles, and education - like this newsletter. Sign up to get my updates 1-2 times a month.
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