Ryan sat at his desk, waiting for André to be delivered to his office for another session. He was studying a report from the occupational therapy service concerning Mr. Thompson’s retention of job skills. Ryan was pleased to see the examining therapist felt André would be able to perform basic accounting tasks, and seemed to have lost little of his knowledge of the mathematical skills required to do the job. He could use a calculator and still remembered computer programs, although the restricted use of his right hand made the process slow. The drawback to employability was his language, he still spoke in a kind of jargon, and many attempts at speech were garbled. This would definitely preclude his returning to his job as an instructor at the junior college. However, he could handle someth
