Intervention
RECRUITMENT
A 10-week intervention program was run for the two participant groups–the SmeS experimental group and the CS control group. Each weekly group session consisted of six to eight participants and ran for 90 minutes. For both groups, a follow-up home training program with the participants and their caregivers was also run by healthcare workers and volunteers once a week for 30 minutes.The SmeS experimental group consisted of 10 centre-based group sessions. Each session was run by an occupational therapist and two additional facilitators who were independent of the participant recruitment and data collection processes. The participants were asked to encode the steps of a task by forming an association with the steps and sequence. They were trained in the use of the chunking association method and honeycomb concept and performed different tasks each week, implementing this encoding strategy [