ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates asssistive technologies for cognition offer innovative and viable possibilities for ameliorating the psychosocial impact of neurobehavioural disability. Rehabilitation aims to remediate the life-changing social handicap that results from neurobehavioural disability, allowing people to return to meaningful social lives. The concept of augmenting cognitive functions through technology is not new, or even unfamiliar. The neurobehavioural paradigm of rehabilitation arose to meet the needs of persons with disability due to: disorders of drive, including changes to initiative or motivation which prevent adequate self-care. It also includes disorders of inhibitory and regulatory control that impair judgement in the management of one's affairs and disorders of personality that lead to anti-social forms of behaviour that put the person or others at risk. In brain injury rehabilitation, scheduling often requires supportive antecedent prompts and consequential rewards, with the aim of increasing the frequency and duration of this purposeful behaviour.
