The Role of Cognitive Retraining in Comprehensive Rehabilitation

  • J. Michael Williams
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Abstract

Cognitive retraining consists of a group of educational techniques ostensibly designed to remediate the impairments in cognition that result from brain injury (Diller & Gordon, 1981; Luria, 1963). For example, aphasia resulting from dominant hemisphere injury is treated using a wide array of language retraining techniques that vary with the type of aphasic symptoms (Darley, 1975). Similarly, memory disorder is treated using mnemonic techniques, such as visual mediation, or memory-assistive devices, like appointment books (Crovitz, 1979; Gianutsos, 1981; Schacter & Glisky, 1986).

Keywords

Brain Injury Skill Training Memory Ability Retrograde Amnesia Skill Deficit 
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