We then review treatment research comparing errorless and errorful methods in amnesia and aphasia, where only the latter provides (difficult) retrieval practice opportunities. In each clinical domain ...

Acquiring movement skills is crucial across the lifespan, supporting an individual’s participation in sports and physical activities. Errorless motor learning, which promotes success during practice, ...

Errorless learning treatments largely fail to capitalize on this powerful learning principle, as they prioritize errorless performance during training. In the sections that follow, we consider how ...

1 Aphasia Lab, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA 2 National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, ...

Do people learn from their mistakes? This question is often a subject of discussion at rehabilitation centers. For people with memory problems preventing mistakes is a better learning strategy. New ...

In my article last week on the Educational Assistant shortage in public schools, I mentioned Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI) therapy as a valuable tool for teachers working with students with ...

An errorless learning technique was used to teach a multihandicapped adolescent three discrimination tasks. The student learned to correctly identify objects which corresponded to the teacher's verbal ...

Researchers have found the first evidence that older brains get more benefit than younger brains from learning information the hard way -- via trial-and-error ...