• Interpersonal skills (cooperation, tact, and assisting)

• Dependability

• Decision-making

• Dealing with frequent change

• Stamina

• Strength

• Judgment

• Motivation or initiative

• Follow-through or ability to follow instructions

• Self-confidence/self-image

• Drowsiness from interrupted sleep patterns

• Concentration

• Memory

• Stability and consistency of behavior

Link an individual's specific functional limitations to that person's ability to get and keep employment. Often these individuals have lost employment in the past due to the functional limitations they have demonstrated.

• Fully explore the individual's history and the prognosis.

• Consider the individual's willingness to take medications as they are prescribed.

• Explore secondary conditions e.g., depression is often secondary to spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, back injury, etc.