ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the relatively limited number of studies that up until have examined the effectiveness of specific training to compensate for visual, visuospatial, and attentional disorders. To alleviate the disorders resulting from this deficit, two different rehabilitative approaches have been undertaken. Heminattention disorder is the inability to attend to events taking place in the side of space contralateral to the side of the cerebral lesion. The patient with this disorder tends to ignore objects or persons in the neglected hemispace. The relative stability of the heminattentive disorder in time is confirmed by cross-sectional studies that have examined case histories of chronic patients in rehabilitation clinics. The influence of the apraxic disorder in everyday activities, such as eating and driving a car, can be easily imagined. A rather large number of studies on the rehabilitation of patients with a heminattentive disorder will be considered.
