USING RESEARCH LITERATURE TO DEVELOP A PERCEPTUAL RETRAINING TREATMENT PROTOCOL

Objectives. Treatment protocols derived from research literature can h elp therapists provide more rigorous treatment and more systematic ass essment of client progress. Method. This study applied research findin gs about the influence of task, subject, and feedback parameters on ad ult performance with block designs to an occupational therapy treatmen t protocol for parquetry block assembly - an activity occupational the rapists use to remediate constructional deficits. Task parameter resea rch suggests that parquetry tasks can be graded according to the featu res of the design cards, with cards having all block boundaries drawn in being easier than those with some block boundaries omitted. Results . Subject parameter findings suggest that clients' lesions and initial constructional competence can influence their approaches to parquetry tasks Conclusion. Feedback parameter research suggests that a combina tion of perceptual and planning cues is most effective for parquetry t asks. Methods to help clients transfer constructional skills from parq uetry to functional tasks are also discussed.