Return to Work
This is considered the gold standard for measuring rehabilitation success after brain injury.
What is Return to Work (RTW)?
This rehabilitation researcher developed the Supported Employment Model.
Who is Wehman?
This federal act established the foundation for state vocational rehabilitation systems.
What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
This professional may also be called a job coach in supported employment.
What is an employment specialist?
These strategies help workers compensate for memory difficulties.
What are compensatory memory strategies?
Referrals to this service should occur in a timely manner to improve outcomes.
What is Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)?
Employment rates after severe TBI are reported to be within this range.
What is less than 10%–40%?
Supported employment emphasizes this type of individualized assistance.
What is intensive individualized assistance?
All states and U.S. territories have these federally supported systems for employment assistance.
What are Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) programs?
Employment specialists conduct these to determine workplace demands and job matches.
What are job analyses?
Environmental supports are used to reduce this workplace issue.
What are distractions?
Communication and support to this individual is considered integral to RTW success.
Who is the employer?
Older age, more severe injury, and this gender are associated with poorer employment outcomes.
What is male?
“Real job,” “real pay,” and “community-based” are key characteristics of this employment model.
What is Supported Employment?
Assessment, vocational counseling, and job placement are examples of these provided by VR.
What are vocational rehabilitation services and supports?
This process involves modifying or restructuring a job with the employer to create a better fit.
What is job matching or job restructuring?
Prompts are often used to help with this executive functioning challenge.
What is task initiation and completion?
These assessments should be functional, vocationally relevant, and sometimes performed outside the office setting.
What are neuropsychological and vocational assessments?
Volunteer work, tryouts, and homemaking created problems in RTW studies because of differing definitions of this concept.
What is “work”?
Research shows this service improves work outcomes after TBI.
What is job coaching?
This written program is developed as part of vocational rehabilitation assessment services.
What is an Individualized Plan for Employment (IPE)?
Employment specialists use collected data to determine when to do this with instruction and job coaching.
What is fade support?
Frequent feedback and modeling can help address this workplace difficulty.
What is socially inappropriate behavior?
Traditional VR evaluations should be used cautiously with people who have this condition severity.
What is severe TBI?
Lack of social support, cognitive impairments, and substance abuse history are examples of these.
What are barriers to successful return to work?
Supported Employment Services are authorized under this federal law.
What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
These four RTW approaches include Minimal Intervention, Education & Preparation, Advocacy Level Services, and Workplace Supports.
What are State Funded Vocational Rehabilitation service approaches?
Transportation, alarm clocks, and Social Security assistance are examples of these off-the-job services.
What is case management support?
Environmental modifications and compensatory strategies are especially useful for workers with these impairments.
What are cognitive, social, or behavioral impairments?
According to the slides, this type of vocational service is often inadequate by itself.
What is a one-time vocational service?