Issues Related to the Individual

1. What are the individual's job duties?
2. What job duties are problematic?
3. Exactly what does the person have trouble doing within the problematic area? (One must be very specific here.)
4. Examples of pinpointing:
   • spelling problems?--(this may be an indicator of LD) is it due to reversals?
   • visual or auditory deficits?
   • reading problems?--is it due to a visual or auditory discrimination difficulty?
   • memory deficits?--is this due to lack of attention, the inability to focus, or the inability to screen out extraneous stimuli, or short-term/ long-term memory deficits?
5. What are the neurological deficits? (One may have to do some educated guessing here.)
6. How can the deficit be compensated? (This is where an accommodation(s) will be considered.)

Issues Related to the Workplace

1. What is the physical layout of the workplace?
2. What specific equipment is utilized in the work setting?
3. What kind of lighting is used and what is the noise level in the workplace?
4. Is the workplace visually distracting, auditorially distracting?