Contents

The training is set up as a “Virtual School” for information on traumatic brain injury (TBI). The school consists of several “classrooms” containing information that is pertinent to school personnel working with students with traumatic brain injury. Participants enter the school and access different sections of the school for information. The sections include:

• Nurse’s Office - This room contains general information about the brain, the causes and effects of TBI, medical issues related to brain injury, and information about concussion or mild TBI.

• Family Resource Center - Information geared towards professionals and families is located in this room.  There are video interviews in which individuals with TBI, family members, and professionals share relevant information and personal insights about the effects of TBI.  The Family Resource Center also includes links to family/caregiver specific Web sites, recommended readings, and printable information for use by school professionals and families/caregivers.

• Classroom - The classroom has information on how the effects of brain injury may look in school and how skills may be impaired.  It explains general interventions for the classroom and shows how to use the method of “contextualized hypothesis testing” to determine what, how, when, and where interventions should be tested and implemented.  Several printable case studies are included for a review of the concepts presented.

• Library - This virtual resource center contains Web links, printable information, recommended readings, and statistics about the incidence of TBI.  Learn about terms commonly used in reference to TBI by taking advantage of the “TBI Dictionary.”