Home Office Organization (with Filing System and Bill Center):  Analyze the client’s current system and, if necessary, assist in purchasing new and more functional components for the filing system.  Provide hands-on instruction for setting up individualized filing systems and bill centers.  Implement strategies for sorting through paperwork and instruct in rules on purging/shredding vs. saving important documentation.  (average client requires 6 hours)

Financial Management:  Assess the client’s current knowledge of money management and instruct on basic budgeting strategies.  Develop an individualized working budget with income/expenditures, provide a written system to track spending, and provide instruction for incorporating daily spending strategies into a working budget.  Educate the client on the concepts of estimated budget vs. actual amount spent and develop strategies to modify the budget based on changes in cash flow, and help the client to begin saving on any income.  (average client requires 8 hours)

Home Management:  Assess the current home environment and instruct in organizational strategies/tools to effectively organize all areas of the home.  Provide written, individualized checklists to assist with completion of various household tasks and instruct in scheduling strategies for work responsibilities, household tasks, and children’s activities utilizing a datebook and home office tools.  Other services include: instructing in parenting strategies for working parents; demonstrating and instructing in meal planning (with a focus on saving money and time as well as utilizing various community resources); implementing grocery shopping strategies to save money and time, as well as increase healthier choices; and provide strategies to schedule time effectively, minimizing time wasters, and prioritizing important tasks within home and work environment.  (average client requires 8 hours) [Neuropsychology]

Visual Perceptual Training:  Assess seven key areas of perception, including visual discrimination, visual memory, visual spatial relationships, visual form constancy, visual sequential memory, visual figure ground, and visual closure.  Improve visual skills through a retraining regime that includes paper-pencil tasks, homework, and functional tasks within the home and community environment.  Recommendations are made regarding deficit areas to fine tune job searches or to assist in a current work position as well as overall functioning within home and community environment.  (average client requires 8 hours)

Transportation Training:  Assist client with learning independent means of transportation through participation in an adaptive driving assessment or providing alternate public transportation training.  (average client requires 10 hours)

Upper Extremity Functioning:  Assess and treat upper extremity deficits relative to range of motion, strength, gross-motor coordination, fine motor coordination, and sensation, with the focus on how the client functions on the job as well as in home and community.  Develop home exercise programs specific to the client’s needs and provide activity analysis to increase functional use of upper extremities.  Instruct in compensation techniques for loss of function for greater ease with work performance, and make recommendations to employers intended to improve work performance.  (average client requires 15 hours) [Physical Therapy]