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Research

Dr. Sohlberg’s research has focused on designing and evaluating assistive technology tools to support adolescents and adults with acquired brain injury function optimally in their communities. With her collaborators in computer science, special education, and rehabilitation sciences. she honed an iterative design process that is embedded in principles of participatory action research to develop and evaluate assistive technology tools such as adapted email interfaces for people with severe memory impairments, and electronic delivery of reading comprehension and writing strategies. Her most recent focus has been on facilitation and evaluation of patient-centered goal setting in neurorehabilitation. Perhaps her most significant contribution to the field of cognitive rehabilitation has been assisting with the generation of evidence-based practice guidelines. She has co-authored national practice guidelines in the use of direct attention training, external aids to manage memory impairments, standardized assessment in traumatic brain injury, behavioral interventions, executive function interventions, instructional methods, internal memory strategies and facilitation of social communication after brain injury.