Independent Living Skills Training (ILST)
ILST are individually designed to improve or maintain the ability of the waiver participant to live as independently as possible in the community. ILST assists in recovering skills that have decreased as a result of onset of disability. Also, ILST will primarily be targeted to those individuals with progressive illnesses to maintain essential skills. Services are provided in the waiver participant's home, in the community or through Telehealth.
ILST helps individuals learn strategies to adapt to challenges from TBI by devising routines and modifications to improve daily functioning. Individuals set their goals to enhance satisfaction with their lives.
The role of the ILST service provider is to assist people with brain injuries to be in control of their lives and to live as independently as possible in the community of their choice. ILST services include assessment, training, and supervision of, or assistance to, an individual with issues related to self-care, medication management, task completion, communication skills, interpersonal skills, socialization, sensory/motor skills, mobility, community transportation skills, reduction/elimination of maladaptive behaviors, problem solving skills, money management, pre-vocational skills and skills to maintain a household. ILST is provided in the environment and situation that results in the greatest positive outcome for the waiver participant and in an environment where the trained skills are most commonly used.
