1. STEP ONE: Yesterday I brain coached a young adult male who has never "really" had a job....He's 28 years old.
He feared employment because each time he tried he became so discouraged. (lacking real supports - job coach when needed, cheerleaders to say well- done!).
Brain coaching and walking alongside "Abled" (not enabled) him to make the step to Voc Rehab. He saw the presentation himself - I joined him with the counselor for paperwork. It took me 1 year to get to step one, he'd been on the street for 5 years!
He had tried over and over to succeed himself, always falling back to sleeping on the street. A good hearted preson eventually turning to self-medication of drugs and alcohol. He has been drug free for 15 months.
Previous barriers included:

• If he did understand what the counselor was saying, he forgot when he changed environments (generalization).

• He couldn't fill out the paperwork and if he managed to he forgot to turn it in. (sequencing)

• He was given so much information, he only remembered the last thing said or maybe his brain never heard it at all because it was overloaded or could not receive it.
  (memory/retention/auditory processing)