Strategies for case study C: 20-year-old man

To assist with his rehabilitation:

• Tasks will need to be short and simple
• The ultimate goal, or end point, should be broken down into smaller components
• Repetitive activities to assist learning (procedural learning)
• Allowances made for slow speed of processing
• He can only engage in one activity at a time (don’t ask him questions during meal
  preparation)
• Keep instructions short, or pause after specific points to ensure he is following
• Frequent reminders may be necessary
• Have a daily timetable which needs to be checked regularly
• He is likely to require prompting to initiate a task and also intermittent prompting to
  persist with an activity (need will probably decline with time)
• Have clear guidelines, or plan, for each activity that he can easily follow
• Possibly a period of assessment and rehabilitation with a Transitional Living Unit.

Once home he will need:

• some ongoing assistance (meals, house keeping, carer hours)
• a regular daily/weekly timetable of activities so a routine is established
• names of people involved and location of activity written on timetable
• a white board for important information and reminders
• a well organised household – everything has its place
• a system for paying bills (automatic, family, guardian)
• a system for taking medication (e.g. blister packs, alarm, part of daily routine, pill box).

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