Branches to Recovery For Parents with Children with Brain Injury

Branches to Recovery For Parents with Children with Brain Injury

Children's Hospital Los Angeles
CD-ROM in English and Spanish on rehabilitation of children with brain injuries for families, educators, and rehabilitation therapists.
Item: BRRE
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Full Description

This is an easy to use computer based learning program with English and Spanish options. It introduces families, educators and health professionals to the rehabilitation of children with brain injuries.

Topics include:

  • Will my child ever be the same?
  • When will my child come home?
  • Can my child go back to school?
  • Stages of rehabilitation
  • How the brain works
  • Your child before and after the injury
  • Educational options
  • Your rehabilitation team

Designed with wonderful graphics, this multimedia CD-ROM is a great interactive learning tool designed to help families and others learn about the stages of recovery after brain injury in children.

Designed with wonderful graphics, this CD-ROM is a great interactive learning tool that can be used at home, in the rehabilitation unit or library. Users can go through at their own pace.

In addition to families, this CD-ROM is an effective learning tool for educators, health care staff and community personnel. It will help any user understand what it means for a child to have a brain injury and what to expect during rehabilitation.

NOTE: CD-ROM IS PC ONLY

Details
Item BRRE
Year 2000

Authors

About the Author

  Branches to Recovery was developed by rehabilitation experts at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, in conjunction with the University of Southern California University Affiliated Program.

  Childrens Hospital Los Angeles is one of the nation’s leading pediatric hospitals and a major referral center for children requiring rehabilitation after an acquired brain injury.

Excerpts

Branches to Recovery

Their lives change in an instant. More than one million children and teenagers in the US sustain brain injuries each year. Their families are quickly plunged into the often confusing world of rehabilitation. From the beginning, each parent has questions and seeks answers.

Branches to Recovery gives families and other users basic information on acquired and traumatic brain injury and the rehabilitation process. This will help them understand this important new stage in their children’s lives.

How to Use Branches to Recovery

This program can be used at home, in the rehabilitation unit or anywhere there is a PC Windows based computer. Users can go through at their own pace. You can go through the material in sequence or you can go directly to a question or topic of interest. Users set the pace for reviewing the material and can repeat topics multiple times if needed.

This PC Windows based CD-ROM is also an effective learning tool for educators, health care staff and community personnel. It can help any user understand what it means for a child to have a brain injury and what to expect during rehabilitation.

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