This report describes the development of the Comprehensive Assessment of Requisite Email Skills (CORE), a prototype evaluation process to assess the needs of individuals with brain injury for using electronic mail ( email). CORE is part of a series of research activities being conducted by our work group (www.think-and-link.org1 ). The group is dedicated to developing and studying tools to facilitate social interaction over the internet for persons with cognitive-linguistic impairments due to acquired brain injury (ABI).

Our report is organized into four sections. Section I provides background information on the target population and the results of preliminary work that motivated this project (p. 2). Section 2 presents an overview view of the CORE evaluation process and procedures (p. 8). Section 3 contains the CORE manual and protocols (p. 15) and Section 4 presents CORE data on our first longitudinal participant (p. 46).