It is extremely important for you to hone your observation skills. Observation and asking the right kinds of questions will assist you in finding the specifics about where a particular skill begins to break down or becomes more difficult. After an injury, it is difficult to set goals. We need to help survivors start at a place where they feel comfortable. I use a strategy that I call baby steps .
Baby steps is one compensation technique that is effectively used by many survivors.
The tendency after the injury is to do things as they were done before. The survivor will many times jump right in without paying attention to the specifics of a situation. The concept of baby steps is that the survivor will take small steps towards completing a larger goal. For instance, I gave my class an assignment to choose a book or magazine of their choice and to read and summarize a chapter or an article. One student, in particular, was very overwhelmed by the idea of reading.