Books on living in the community with a brain injury, disability or special needs
Information and resources for adults, veterans and children on living at home and in the community with physical, emotional, cognitive or behavioral challenges.
Brain injury behavior rehabilitation manual for families, rehabilitation programs and community programs for adults with behavioral, emotional and cognitive disorders and brain injuries. By Marty McMorrow.
This workbook guides survivors of brain injury and blast injury through the powerful healing experience of telling their own stories with simple journaling techniques. By writing short journal entries, survivors explore the challenges, losses, changes, emotions, adjustments, stresses, and milestones as they rebuild their lives. By Barbara Stahura and Susan Schuster.
A vocational training program for adults with traumatic and other types of acquired brain injuries living in the community includes 20 structured sessions with a workbook and CD with worksheets. Part One of the vocational curriculum helps survivors of brain injuries and blast injuries explore their interests, concerns and readiness for finding a job or returning to work. Part Two covers steps of looking for a job with attention to disclosure of a disability, on the job accommodations, resume preparation and interviewing. Part Three covers strategies for keeping a job and avoiding problems on the job.
Brain injury rehabilitation manuals with functional activities on behavior, cognition, leisure, and activities of daily living for brain injury programs and other disabiities.
Brain injury concussion books, manuals, tip cards and rehabilitation activities for adults with traumatic brain injury, families, and caregivers. Information on attention, learning, communication, cognition, behavior, and adjustment after head injury.
Book on marital stress and adjustment by a family when a spouse has a brain injury. Discusses emotional trauma for family, grieving, mourning, parenting, and caregiving after severe head trauma.
Blast injury, PTSD and brain injury guide for families and caregivers on the consequences of concussion in veterans. Used by many VA Hospitals and Army Medical Facilities.
Book explores people with disabilities in society, including challenges and rewards of tolerating differences and developing a community where there is a place for young and old, children and adults, people with and without disabilities.
