Middle school and high school can be challenging for teens and adolescents with acquired brain injury. Academic and vocational goals may be altered by a traumatic brain injury. Planning for adulthood may be more complex with new challenges for physical, social, cognitive and behavioral abilities. These books have information to help teenage students with head injuries or concussion succeed in school and prepare for adulthood, vocational training, college, employment and independent living. They are excellent resources for teachers, counselors, and parents as well as adolescents.
This booklet helps parents and educators understand how the child’s brain develops and why an acquired brain injury can have both immediate and long-term consequences. It shows how a traumatic injury can disrupt the brain’s development and why changes may show up as the child grows up. By understanding how various regions of the brain develop, families and educators will recognize the relationship between and injury and changes in the child’s physical, cognitive, social, behavioral, and communicative skills.
Practical book for families, educators and counselors on going to college, teaching strategies and accommodations for students with brain injury, learning disabilities and special needs.
Manual with teaching strategies for students with acquired brain injury and challenges with behavior, attention, cognition and language. Includes educational strategies for helping student with a head injury on language demands of English and Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Science.
Tool Kit on Teenagers and Traumatic Brain Injury is for families, educators and life care planners with information on cognitive, social and behavoral effects of head injury in adolescents at home and in school.
Concussion is the most common type of brain injury among children and adolescents in school. By describing the student-athlete's neighborhood, this manual take an innovative and comprehensive approach to educating parents, teachers, physicians, coaches, athletic trainers, school nurses, and peers about how the effects of mild brain injury.
Manual explains how brain trauma can affect self awareness and shows educators how to use awareness activities to help students with brain injuries in middle and high schools.
Booklet helps adolescents identify strengths and difficulties after brain injury and describes learning strategies and accommodations needed in school.
This manual covers the diagnosis, treatment options, behavioral and academic issues, parent involvement and self-advocacy. For any parent or teacher with a teen with ADD or ADHD.
