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Information on risks and consequences of aging after brain injury helps families and caregivers assess needs for help, provide support, and assist with memory, planning and organization at home. The Aging Tool Kit includes 3 books and 40 tip cards with therapeutic activities for adults with traumatic brain injury, stroke, brain tumor, or dementia.

Behavior after brain injury is one of the most challenging aspects of treatment and recovery for survivors, families, therapists and clinicians. Supporting positive behaviors, developing social skills, and improving self awareness are immediate and long-term goals for adults with brain injuries in rehabilitation programs, living at home, and in the community. This special collection of manuals and tip cards gives clinicians and family members practical information, tools and strategies to address behavioral challenges and disorders resulting from acquired brain injury.

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.

This special collection of books and tip cards on brain injury, blast injury and PTSD is designed for chaplains and counselors helping families cope with the emotional impact of a traumatic injury. Two books help counselors and chaplains understand the effects of concussion, blast injury and brain injury by providing information on common symptoms, treatment and recovery. A supply of tip cards (pamphlets) with practical information and coping strategies on grief and loss, marital relationships, depression and caregiving are included for counselors and chaplains to distribute to families, veterans and survivors.

Cognitive communication rehabilitation activity manual is for adults with acquired brain injuries (ABI), such as traumatic brain injury, stroke, tumor or dementia. It can be used by individuals who are in high school, who have returned from the military or who have developed cognitive based language challenges from any type of brain trauma. It is also helpful for persons with age related memory loss and mild cognitive impairments.

Brain injury DVD for children about the story of Elvin the elephant. Children learn about brain injury and how it can affect emotions, behavior and friends in school and at home.

Filled with practical information on difficult questions of...What happens next? How will we go on as a family? What does this mean? How can I help? A great resource for rehabilitation programs, brain injury associations and community agencies…something for everyone in the family. Includes 6 books.

Manuals for educators, therapists and parents show how to identify students with brain injuries in school, address cognitive and behavioral challenges in the classroom, and develop educational programs with supports and accommodations. They are full of practical educational and compensatory strategies for the classroom and home with examples on teaching students in school.

Families become the real “case managers” for services in the community over time, whether is it a son, daughter, parent, sibling, or spouse who has a brain injury. This workbook teaches families how to communicate effectively, set goals and plan for the future, locate and coordinate services, make referrals that get results, advocate for services and funding, and evaluate what’s important.

Every family can use information in this workbook to cut through barriers, find resources, locate services, pull together care plans and build a future.