Guided Training for People With Cognitive Impairment

Guided training is an intervention strategy designed to help individuals identify barriers in their daily life and guide them to generate their own strategies to address these barriers. This intervention strategy is different from traditional direct skill training, in which rehabilitation practitioners are responsible for identifying their patients' challenges to perform activities and teaching them task-specific problem-solving strategies. Guided training has been applied in a variety of clinical populations, including individuals with stroke and TBI, and has demonstrated significant effect on improving independence with daily activities among persons with acute stroke-related cognitive impairments enrolled in inpatient rehabilitation.