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. 2018 Mar 26;5(1):e4. doi: 10.2196/rehab.8548

Table 6.

Traditional approaches for cognitive rehabilitation after stroke. ADL: activities of daily living.

Approach Description Result
Strategy training approach [58] Internal and external compensatory strategies Strategy training groups improve patients’ dexterity
Errorless learning [11] Manipulation of limbs during ADL Significant improvement on trained activities

Simultaneous performance of ADL with therapist or examiner
Variety of approaches [57] Pictorial representation of the goals and subgoals, written commands No significant effects on trained tasks
Verbalization strategy [26] Patient taught a poem based on the steps of making a cup of tea Weak training effects across sessions and no transfer to untrained tasks or objects
Error monitoring and detection; task training action intervention [59] Pictorial descriptions of objects Better performance on the Naturalistic Action Test

Video presentation of the task, from a patient’s perspective