What Is Agnosia?
9. Alternative Cues and Organizational Strategies
Some general strategies to help patients with agnosia include using alternative cues. For example, patients who are unable to recognize faces can identify hairstyles, scars, or moles. Alternative strategies also include identifying objects by touch in visual agnosia, voice recognition for prosopagnosia, and teaching lip reading for those with auditory agnosia.
Organizational strategies would include providing a consistent and predictable environment for patients. The development of routines can improve consistency for various tasks. For patients with visual agnosia, it may be helpful to place the things they use in the same place everyday and to reduce the amount of things by decluttering. Another helpful method would be to label all the different objects.
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