By Jean-Pierre Didier

“Reeducation” is composed in education humans injured both by means of disorder or the vagaries of lifestyles to accomplish the easiest performance now attainable for them. surprisingly, the topic isn't taught within the common academic curricula of the proper professions. Reeducation therefore has a tendency to be constructed anew with every one sufferer, with no recourse to wisdom of what such education, or counsel in such education, will be. notwithstanding, new paradigms of reeducation are in reality attainable at the present time, because of advances in cognitive technological know-how and the improvement of recent applied sciences reminiscent of digital fact and robotics. In flip, they bring about the rethinking of the tactics of actual drugs, in addition to of reeducation.

The current booklet addresses basically these execs enthusiastic about reeducation: the clinician, kinestherapist, ergotherapist, speech therapist, psychometrician, medical psychologist, and neuropsychologist. extra in most cases, it addresses additionally these in occupations in actual rehabilitation and in either fundamental and ongoing education.

The first half appears to be like anew at reeducation within the context of either foreign classifications of performance, handicap, and well-being and the idea that of normality. the second one half highlights the functionality of implicit reminiscence in reeducation. And the final half, illustrated by way of functional examples, exhibits the combination of recent cognition applied sciences within the new paradigms of reeducation.

By its blend of theoretical procedure and useful program, the paintings deals new healing routes towards a greater and extra built-in performance for the patient.

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A brief version of the proposed conceptual description describes rehabilitation as the “health strategy applied by PRM and professionals in the health sector and across other sectors that aim to enable people with health conditions experiencing or likely to experience disability, to achieve and maintain optimal functioning in interaction with the environment” (39). A brief version of the conceptual description for PRM describes it accordingly as “the medical specialty that, based on the assessment of functioning and including the diagnosis and treatment of health conditions performs, applies and coordinates biomedical and engineering and a wide range of other interventions with the goal of optimizing functioning of people experiencing or likely to experience disability” (45).

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We could also add to these frequently used instructions two other instructions that call upon mechanisms that are even less well understood even though they appear able to buttress the interest of certain new technologies such as robotics and virtual reality in the learning process. These instructions may be expressed thus: – don’t do anything and let yourself go; – don’t do anything – just watch the person doing it. The first of these two instructions corresponds to passive mobilization; yet certain mechanisms of its action are surprising and open the way to new learning practices and the necessary adaptation of teaching methods.

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