ABSTRACT
Cognitive or neuropsychological rehabilitation utilizes an assortment of procedures to improve or restore a diverse collection of abilities and skills. The act of cognition is therefore inferred from the behavior an individual displays in relation to some problem. A possible problem for rehabilitation therapists is that much of human behavior exists at an automatic level. In a rehabilitation context, one cannot guarantee the quality of stimulus input while the brain injury itself compromises the processing capacity of the cognitive system, meaning that the essential requirements for learning are neither always available or operational. They apply cognitive a model in a rehabilitation context to modify behavior by helping patients with frontal injury increase awareness of certain aspects of the environment which control their responses. The model conceptualizes different levels of organization, comprising basic cognitive units which are specific neuropsychological functions that form the basis of different types of behaviour. Language has given man a unique opportunity to create his own subjective environment.
