Practical strategies for vocational reentry after traumatic brain injury

The authors present several intervention strategies that have facilitated vocational reentry after traumatic brain injury. These include assessment of learning style, creating simulated work environments, domain specific training, role playing, and using prosthetic aids and cognitive orthotic devices. Several barriers to reemployment are also presented, along with suggestions that obviate these problems. A “return loop syndrome” summarizes the head injured person's cycle of prevocational training, employment, and change of job duties and the need to return for additional vocational rehabilitation services.