Information on New TBI Products

This workbook provides therapeutic activities (directed journaling and coloring mandalas – spiritual and ritual symbols representing the universe) that focus on fine motor skills, attention/cognition, creative expression, and developing right hemisphere creativity. The workbook is for individuals with brain injury on their journey of recovery. When shared with caregivers and family members, the activities will provide a glimpse of what the survivor sees through the lens of a brain injury.

This workbook reflects years of practical application and research on how to use directed journaling statements and the complementary mandalas to exercise the right hemisphere creative centers and promote an alternative, holistic approach to healing.

Included with the workbook is an introductory set of eight (8) coloring pencils.

Memory is an incredible gift that many take for granted. Memories allow an individual to mentally re-experience past events. This Tip Card by Kimberly Hutchinson, PhD, and Larry Dilks, Ph.D, identifies three realms of memory, and then, determines how interference with the physical process of making memories often results in memory loss. In this Tip Card, you learn how to develop ways to improve memory and learning.

This Tip Card is one of a set of four from the authors. The other three Tip Cards are: 

• "Executive Functions after Brain Injury"
• "Visual Perception after Brain Injury"
• "Processing Speed after Brain Injury"

Take some time to look at them. You will want them as a part of your collection.

This Tip Card will help one understand the function of processing speed, recognize problems, and develop activities that address impaired processing speed. Organic dysfunctions contribute to impairment without the person being aware there is a problem.

Processing speed improvements are achieved by challenging an individual to think, move, and respond quicker through training and experience. Even though it affects the survivor, everyone is encouraged to be involved in the therapy process.

Visual perceptual problems after a brain injury are common. This Tip Card, written by Kimberly S. Hutchinson, Ph.D., and Lawrence S. Dilks, Ph.D., taken from their two-volume set -- Cognitive Rehabilitation of Executive Functions -- focuses on visual perception -- what is seen in the environment and how it is given meaning. There are two parts to visual perception:

1. vision and everything seen.
2. brain interpretation and management of information.

Improving visual perceptual skills or learning new strategies to work around problems takes patience and practice in order to see changes and turn strategies into habits.

Kimberly Hutchinson, Ph.D. and Lawrence Dilks, Ph.D., have created a valuable tool. By using the tips contained in this Tip Card, the individual experiencing perception problems will experience improvement and caregivers/family members will be able to give assistance as needed.

This book is for anyone that has ever lost a loved one through traumatic brain injury. It is for any parent who has ever sat up at night worrying about a child serving in the military overseas. It is for those with a parent or grandparent suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, unable to fix or heal them. It is for those who can only watch and wait as their loved one slowly deteriorates and fades away. Cathy Powers writes to reveal her crisis of faith as her son’s survival was in question.

During her journey, Cathy documented her daily life and her son’s progress through a social media platform. While her story and continued faith in God, throughout even the hardest of times, was an inspiration to many, Cathy kept her true fears and struggles hidden. In this book, she opens up to what life was really like for a mother who is forced to live through her worst nightmare: the loss of her son.

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Cathy Powers was invited to the Premier of a video created by POLYTRAUMA REHAB IN THE VA: COMPASSIONATE CARE.in Richmond VA., where her son had received care for his TBI.

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Turning Points is an innovative new clinical textbook/manual by international leaders in brain injury treatment and rehabilitation, Yehuda Ben-Yishay, Ph.D. and Leonard Diller, Ph.D., with contributions by George P. Prigatano, Ph.D. and E. Daniels-Zide and D. Biderman. Featuring case studies, authors explore psychotherapeutic interventions for neuropsychological rehabilitation. They explore techniques for optimizing information processing, facilitating receptivity, and inducing self-enhancing behaviors in individuals with brain injury. Ideal for clinicians, graduate students, and trainees working in brain injury.

BEHAVIOR FUNCTIONAL REHABILITATION ACTIVITY MANUAL -- Brain injury rehabilitation manual with functional activities for adolescents and adults on social skills, interpreting cues, assertiveness, communication, anger management, and vocational interests. Click Here for Additional Information.

FAMILY REHABILITATION ACTIVITY MANUAL -- a brain injury rehabilitation manual containing functional activities specifically designed for families for use at home and in community. With shortening stays in rehabilitation programs, individuals with brain injuries are returning home sooner after their injuries. This means that many families become responsible for caregiving, supervision and/or emotional support at home and in the community. Click Here for Additional Information

COGNITION FUNCTIONAL REHABILITATION ACTIVITY MANUAL -- Brain injury rehabilitation manual with functional activities on cognition for brain injury programs and persons with disabilities. Activities on memory, attention, orientation, awareness, problem solving, communication, money management, and community safety are designed for easy instruction and implementation. Not only for persons with brain injury, this manual can be used for persons with a wide range of developmental or neurological impairments. Click Here for Additional Information

COGNITIVE COMMUNICATION: FUNCTION ACTIVITIES MANUAL -- 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. Click Here for Additional Information

This is a 3-volume set by Lawrence S. Dilks, Ph.D., and Kimberly Hutchinson, Ph.D., that has been developed for clinicians. The set features exercises and activities that can be timed (stopwatch included), print-ready on a flashdrive, that address: attention, concentration, processing speed, categorization, sequencing, awareness, neglect, working memory, reasoning, judgment, humor, language, planning ability, impulse control, and stress/anger management. The contents are designed to assist persons with neurological impairments in the recovery process in areas of: orientation, attention and concentration, processing speed, memory, executive functions, language redevelopment, visual perception, anxiety and depression.

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Items that come with the three-volume set include:

• 1 CD or 1 USB Drive (containing all exercises in PDF format from Workbooks)
• 1 Stopwatch

Check out the new Tip Card -- EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS -- by the same authors.  Use it as a vital addition to the clinical process.

Executive Functions control activities such as managing emotions, attention, concentration, categorization, planning, sequencing, problem solving, impulse control, reasoning, and judgment. Changes in executive functions often occur after brain injury.

Strategies found in this Tip Card can be helpful in the recovery process for the injured individual and the caregivers.

This set of two workbooks by Lawrence S. Dilks, Ph.D., and Kimberly Hutchinson, Ph.D. developed for clinicians, features practical intervention exercises involving the reconstruction of executive functions of the brain. Using functional approaches, the authors address: attention, concentration, processing speed, categorization, sequencing, awareness, neglect, working memory, reasoning, judgment, humor, language, planning ability, impulse control, and stress/anger management.

Items that come with the two-volume set include:

• 1 CD or 1 USB Drive (containing all exercises in PDF format from Workbooks)
• 1 Stopwatch

Check out the new Tip Card -- EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS -- by the same authors.  Use it as a vital addition to the clinical process.