Cognitive rehabilitation was an 8 week program which was followed at OPD level in clinical neuropsychology room ranging from 60-90 mins session once a week. The session opens with temporal and spatial orientation, to improve patients' independence and learning how to use compensatory strategies. These orientations were made using calendars and diary. This was based on Reality orientation concept.4 It operates through the presentation of orientation information (e.g. time, place and person-related) which is thought to provide the person with a greater understanding of their surroundings, possibly resulting in an improved sense of control and self-esteem. In between the sessions the patients were encouraged to speak about their life to build
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Spaced Retrieval technique: It is an alternate memory intervention that uses an expanding schedule of successful retrievals from memory to enhance recall. Spaced retrieval is based on the concept of expanding retrieval practice in which the participant were taught information and then repeatedly tested on it such as face name association & object recall (pill name, household objects etc) where the time period between the successful recall was progressive, with an opening interval of 10 seconds, and afterwards 20, 40, 60 seconds, with extensions of 30 seconds if the initial interval is successful. When the patient failed to recall, he/she is given the correct answer, asked to repeat it, and then tested again at the interval in which the patient was last successful.26 The ultimate goal of the intervention is long-term retention of new learned information.
2. Adaptive Learning: the participant was given a series of subject-performed tasks as a measure of secondary memory ability.27 In this task 10 items were presented to the participants and then they would be asked to perform a specific action with each item. For example, handing the participant a plain paper and ask the participant, ‘how do we fold a paper’ Participants were later asked to free recall the object and what they did with the object. For items that the participants could not recall, the object was brought out as a cue and participants were asked to describe what they did with the
Spaced Retrieval technique: It is an alternate memory intervention that uses an expanding schedule of successful retrievals from memory to enhance recall. Spaced retrieval is based on the concept of expanding retrieval practice in which the participant were taught information and then repeatedly tested on it such as face name association & object recall (pill name, household objects etc) where the time period between the successful recall was progressive, with an opening interval of 10 seconds, and afterwards 20, 40, 60 seconds, with extensions of 30 seconds if the initial interval is successful. When the patient failed to recall, he/she is given the correct answer, asked to repeat it, and then tested again at the interval in which the patient was last successful.26 The ultimate goal of the intervention is long-term retention of new learned information.
2. Adaptive Learning: the participant was given a series of subject-performed tasks as a measure of secondary memory ability.27 In this task 10 items were presented to the participants and then they would be asked to perform a specific action with each item. For example, handing the participant a plain paper and ask the participant, ‘how do we fold a paper’ Participants were later asked to free recall the object and what they did with the object. For items that the participants could not recall, the object was brought out as a cue and participants were asked to describe what they did with the