ABSTRACT
This chapter draws some key recommendations specific to working with error to inform rehabilitation practice. The nature of cognitive impairment has been shown to be informative when it comes to deciding whether to raise awareness of errors or to reduce them. Here, it is both the cognitive profile and the severity of impairment that need to be taken into consideration. Disease-related characteristics, severity of cognitive impairment, premorbid learning styles, and task-specific factors may eventually determine the best approach to apply in individual patients. Direct examination of the effectiveness of vanishing cues (VC) and errorless (EL) learning, and spaced retrieval and EL learning as standalone and combined principles showed limited benefit of VC, and little advantage of using combined over individual principles. Despite EL learning being no more effective than errorful approaches, the preference was for the former in many clients. This chapter also presents an overview of key concepts discuss in this book.
