Affect Recognition: Enhancing Performance of Persons With Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)

Inclusion Criteria: * Age between eighteen and sixty-five years old. * At minimum, one year post-injury. * Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) of 12 or less, or stroke with hemi-paresis signifying a moderate to severe acquired brain injury. * A TBI that resulted in either a closed or open head injury or a stroke that resulted in severe disability * Perform at least one standard deviation below the norm on the DANVA2-Adult Faces test, a standardized assessment of facial affect recognition. * Verbally able to express a basic understanding of emotional descriptors (e.g. Happy, sad, angry, fearful). * Demonstrate basic comprehension for short paragraphs presented in 2 ways: 1)auditorily and 2)silent reading. This measure is part of the Discourse Comprehension Test. Exclusion Criteria: * Diagnosed mental illness. * Uncorrected visual acuity. * Uncorrected hearing impairment. * Perceptual impairment (visual neglect and/or visual discrimination). * Impaired verbal expression/ aphasia * Alcohol or substance abuse.