Role Classifications

Collaboration to improve the methods for doing a sensorimotor activity can be discussed as long as the materials are present and the effects depend on concrete actions.

Whereabouts

To let family and friends know about changes in your whereabouts is a social norm that is assumed that every adult understands and has a right to make a choice about.

Within ACL 5.8, the person may anticipate their absence having an effect on another person. The norm may never enter the person's mind within ACL 5.6 and below.

Their possessions are recognised and differentiated from others.

Words and vocabulary that seem to connect possessions with monetary value usually lack sufficient comprehension for equitable business transactions.

Writing monthly checks or paying monthly bills may be dependable as long as nothing out of the ordinary happens.

Periodic maintenance of possessions is apt to be neglected or done inadequately. The need for long-range financial planning and property insurance is either a habit or incomprehensible.

People do not anticipate concrete harmful effects until ACL 5.6 and above. The truth is that anticipating harmful effects is one of the reasons that ACL 5.6 and above may not always be a cognitive disability. If the person has had a recent onset of a cognitive disability, the person is aware of their loss. They can recall abstract information they used to pay attention but can no longer consider the feelings of other people. If abstract information is used for work skills, the loss in the ability to process abstract information maybe profound.

The age of onset affects the person's self-identity. People with a recent onset and a prior history that indicates functioning within ACL 6 often have a sense that their cognitive ability has been reduced. The realisation may not last long and usually occurs when they compare what they just did with what they have done in the past that had very similar content. Incorporating the realisation into changing their life goals often has fuzzy comprehension.

Making concrete improvements while avoiding making secondary negative consequences makes sense to the person in ACL 5 High.

Enthusiasm for the positive effects that they are going to cause can be spontaneously generated by the person.

A sense of accomplishment can be formed after the imagined effects become a reality.

Comprehending secondary consequences enters the scale in ACL 5 High. This ability occurs as information is now easily retrieved from long-term memory. The person is able to avoid mishaps which are normally expected. They remember past mishaps and have learnt to avoid these. They understand that action A results in consequence B which also results in consequence C. Their focus is no longer focused on consequence B. The ability to comprehend secondary consequences is what differentiates between ACL 5 Low and ACL 5 High. In ACL 5 High, they can anticipate negative consequences.

What Makes Sense

• Anticipates errors in concrete situations.

Expected Task Performance

• Well learnt behaviour such as self-care activities may be planned and executed independently.
• Provide the person opportunities to plan out new solutions to housekeeping problems when objects are present, with assistance to identify intangible and secondary effects to be avoided for safety reasons.
• They are able to read instructions to use new products and can vary pace to accommodate for tangible properties of objects.

Assistance Required

Secondary consequences make sense to the person. The person is able to store and retrieve images in their long-term memory. The person can form a mental picture of likely outcomes of their actions based on past outcomes. They can stop and compare past images and decide on the best course of action which includes preventing undesirable effects.

Within ACL 5, the person can remember where they have stored materials. Storage of items is not so important but keeping supplies organised so that other people can find them is.

Information from the person's senses can be used to make improvements. Taste is often associated with cooking activities. There are numerous recipes the person can trial. If cooking is a new activity for the person, a demonstration is required for them to learn how to do this new task. Step by step instructions are helpful. If the person lives alone or comes from a small family unit or is cooking alone, someone else will need to help them to adjust the recipe to cook smaller quantities, otherwise freeze any leftovers, if possible. Freezing single serve quantities is another option.