Cognitive Retraining in a Milieu-Oriented Outpatient Rehabilitation Program: Pamela S. Klonoff, David G. Lamb, Dennis A. Chiapello, Susan K. Kime, Janet Shepherd, and Marie Cunningham

Cognitive remediation has been defined traditionally as activities that improve brain-injured patients' higher cerebral functioning, including disorders of perception, memory, and language (Butler & Namerow, 1988; Gianutsos & Gianutsos, 1979). Others have assigned a more global definition, which incorporates: (a) the enhancement of problem-solving abilities; (b) development and utilization of appropriate compensatory strategies; and (c) improvement of the patients' awareness ofbrain-injury-related difficulties (Ben-Yishay & Diller, 1993; Ben-Yishay & Prigatano, 1990; Klonoff, O'Brien, Prigatano, Chiapello, & Cunningham, 1989).