In what kinds of cases are Vocational Rehabilitationists needed? When substantial earning capacity loss results from workplace developments or disabling injuries and conditions, and when those losses are less than clear or less than certain, the vocational rehabilitation expert is often the most effective kind of expert for quantifying resulting losses. The same is true when employability, motivation, or mitigation efforts are in question.
In what venues do Forensic Rehabilitationists work? Venues include both state and federal matters, within areas such as personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, labor law/ wrongful termination, marital dissolution, and long term disability.
What opinion development steps might be called for? In these kinds of cases, Vocational Rehabilitationists often do clinical interview, standardized vocational testing, consultation with medical or psychological experts, record review (e.g., school transcripts, legal histories, and employment records), labor market research, TSA’s, and various other kinds of analyses.
What is a transferable skills analysis? A TSA is a broad and systematic comparison of a person’s demonstrated capabilities to the demands of his or her labor market. TSA’s are focused on key point/s in time such as before and after an injury. TSA’s are often used as the foundation for earning capacity analysis. Data relied on in this process involves both population level data and individual person level data.