ABSTRACT
One of the most handicapping sequelae of brain injury is persistent memory impairment. There are large numbers of memory-impaired people in our society. Severe head injury, dementia, Korsakoff's syndrome, certain kinds of stroke, anoxia, and other conditions may result in memory impairment. For most of these people it would appear that, after the acute stages, memory functioning is unlikely to improve to any significant degree. Consequently, the best way forward is to teach memory-impaired people and their families to bypass certain problems, to use their residual skills more efficiently, and to teach them to compensate for their memory deficits (Berg, Koning-Haanstra, & Deelman, 1991; Glisky, 1995; Kapur, 1995; Sohlberg & Mateer, 1989; Wilson, 1991, 1995).
