ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the testing on execution function and the ability to live in an unsupported life through further occupational therapy examination. During the author's assessment at OZ, he later found out that they had paid particular attention to the inner core of his being. Inside him, perfectionism, stubbornness and perseverance were vying with hopelessness, fear and apathy. To assess this inner state, the staff at OZ watched his every action, carefully weighting and measuring all that he did. Although many of the tasks appeared at first to be testing language ability, the underpinning element everyone was keenly interested in was his executive function. Sadly, executive function deficits are very common among head trauma survivors and are fairly poorly understood as individual symptoms vary widely. He would be given the opportunity for neuropsychology, physiotherapy, neuro-otology, endocrinology, neurology, and speech and language therapy, all the treatments that he had been fighting for in vain before his visit to OZ.
