Parents and Educators as Partners
A workbook on helping your child after brain injury
By Marilyn Lash, MSW & Bob Cluett ~ 2008
About the Authors
Marilyn Lash has over 35 years of experience working with persons with disabilities and their families in medical, rehabilitation, educational and vocational settings. Currently, she is a Partner at Lash & Associates Publishing/Training, Inc. in Wake Forest, NC. She is an author of many publications on the psychosocial impact of brain injury. Her writing and training emphasize coping strategies for families and practical interventions by professionals and educators in hospitals, rehabilitation programs, schools, and community agencies.
Trained as a social worker at Boston University School of Social Work, she moved from clinical work to program development in the community for many years. While at New England Medical Center in Boston, she developed national training programs at the Research and Training Center on Childhood Trauma. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Active on many national committees, she formerly co-chaired the National Task Force on Children and Adolescents of the Brain Injury Association of America and is on various national task forces on brain injury and editorial boards of rehabilitation journals.
She is the Past Chair of the Brain Injury Association of North Carolina and currently Chair of the North Carolina Statewide Advisory Council on Traumatic Brain Injury.
Bob Cluett is the survivor of a childhood brain injury. He brings a special perspective as President of Lash & Associates Publishing/Training Inc. The skills that he developed during his corporate career of over 25 years in communication, marketing, direct mail advertising and sales now focus on publishing information about the consequences of brain injury among children, adolescents and adults.
He is the former Chairman of the Board for the Brain Injury Association of North Carolina, and is happily married to Marilyn Lash.
