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Trial And Error Versus Errorless Learning Of Functional Skills In Patients With Acute Stroke, Julie Mount, Samuel R. Pierce, Janet Parker, Rebecca Diegidio, Russell Woessner, Lenore Spiegel
Trial And Error Versus Errorless Learning Of Functional Skills In Patients With Acute Stroke, Julie Mount, Samuel R. Pierce, Janet Parker, Rebecca Diegidio, Russell Woessner, Lenore Spiegel
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Objective: To compare the effectiveness of errorless learning versus trial and error learning for teaching activities of daily living to patients with acute stroke with or without explicit memory impairments.
Design: Randomized crossover.
Setting: Rehabilitation hospital.
Participants: 33 adult subjects following an acute stroke.
Intervention: Subjects were taught to prepare a wheelchair for a transfer and to put on a sock with a sock-donner. Tasks were taught using errorless learning or trial and error learning. Explicit memory was assessed using the Neurobehavioral Cognitive Status Exam.
Main Outcome Measures: Days until subject was able to …