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2013-2014 Resource Manual Onondaga County and Surrounding Areas — Examples of the types of resources available in Syracuse NY. "Exceptional Family Resources partners with individuals with disabilities and their families, to provide services, information, advocacy and other supports in order to enhance lives and foster community acceptance."
Alberta Brain Injury Initiative Survival Guide 2012 — The Survival Guide is intended to provide basic information and support to survivors of acquired brain injury and their families. We hope that this guide will also point you in the right direction to find the support and resources that are available in Alberta.
Back to the future: rehabilitation of children after brain injury 2010 — A mistaken optimism persists that outcomes for childhood acquired brain injury (ABI) are in general superior to those for similar injuries in adults, a misconception based on naive concepts of greater ‘plasticity’ in the immature brain. The challenges of rehabilitation after ABI, of bringing children ‘back’ to face the ‘future’ of completing childhood development with an injured brain, are reviewed in the context of the science of brain recovery from injury.
Behavioral and Social Interventions for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Summary of the Research with Clinical Implications 2006 — This article summarizes relevant research findings and clinical perspectives in the areas of intervention for disorders of behavioral self-regulation and social-interactive competence after TBI.
Brain Injury: A Guide for Educators 2012 — This publication is a project of the Children and Adolescents Committee, formerly the Education System Advisory Group, of the Brain Injury Alliance of New Jersey (BIANJ).
BRAIN INJURY. AND THESCHOOLS. A GUIDE FOR EDUCATORS 2013 — The manual provides an overview of brain injury and its cognitive, behavioral, and physical consequences. It provides many resources for teaching and nonteaching personnel, strategies for addressing the issues these students may have relative to education and transition and where to find additional information.
Challenging behaviours, co-morbidities, service utilisation and service access among communitydwelling adults with severe traumatic brain injury: a multicentre study 2014 — To examine patterns, predictors and unmet needs of service utilisation and access to mental health and/or drug and alcohol services among community-dwelling adults with severe traumatic brain injury, and compare those who displayed challenging behaviours with those not displaying challenging behaviour.
Cognition, Cognitive Rehabilitation, and Occupational Performance n.d. — The purpose of this statement is to clarify the role of occupational therapy in evaluating and addressing cognitive functioning and the provision of cognitive rehabilitation to maintain and improve occupational performance.
Cognitive Neuro-rehabilitation, Second Edition: Evidence and Application Edited by Donald T. Stuss, Gordon Winocur and Ian H. Robertson 2008 — TOC and preface
Cognitive Neurorehabilitation Evidence and Application 2010 — This updated new edition summarizes the latest developments in cognitive neuroscience related to rehabilitation, reviews the principles of successful interventions and synthesizes new findings about the rehabilitation of cognitive changes in a variety of populations. See sample chapter at https://www.jsmf.org/about/s/The%20future%20of%20cognitive%20neurorehabilitation.pdf
Helping children without making them helpless: Facilitating development of executive self-regulation in children and adolescents Mark Ylvisaker and Timothy Feeney 2007 — The goals of this chapter are to clarify the concept of executive function=self-regulatory (EF=SR) capacity and skills, to describe factors that influence development of EF=SR in children, and to present intervention themes under the following headings: intervention within a community context, general management guidelines, SR scripts, intervention for organizational impairment, teaching compensatory cognitive and academic strategies, and behavioral interventions.
Making Meaning: The Use of Project-Based Supports for Individuals with Brain Injury 2010 — This article summarizes and extends the literature on interventions focused on the positive affects of projects on outcomes for individuals with brain injury. This literature stands in contrast to many of the traditional approaches to cognitive rehabilitation and includes positive support and the development of personally meaningful activities for improving services to individuals with disabilties.
Mark Ylvisaker’s influence on scripts, videos and projects within a South African context 2010 — The current article overviews a range of collaborative group projects undertaken by members of the Conversation Groups for individuals living with aphasia and cognitive-communication disorders in the Department of Communication Pathology,University of Pretoria, South Africa. Projects work towards creating networks of support, and lessening barriers for the individual living with aphasia and cognitive-communication disorders.
Neurobehavioral interventions in brain injury – March 18, 2008 Telehealth by Marc Roy, Registered Psychologist in Alberta — Neurological causes of the behavioral issues: Orbital frontal lobe Dorsal – working-memory, planning Ventral medial – disinterest, lack of concern, inert, non reactive
Neuropsychological assessment of cognitive disorders in patients with fi bromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus 2012 — This study assesses the possible existence of cognitive disorder associated with chronic diseases [fi bromyalgia (FM), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and lupus (SLE)], and the influence of the variables age, educational level and psychiatric symptoms on those disorders.
NEUROSCIENCE & PSYCHOTHERAPY: NO LONGER STRANGE BEDFELLOWS 2013 (PPT slides) — “Advances in neuroscience provide guidance for the development of psychological conceptualizations of mental illness and treatment that go beyond a reductionistic biological etiology.” from * N. Cappas et.al. (2005). What psychotherapists can begin to learn from neuroscience: Seven principles of a brain-based Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 42, 3, 374-383.
NSW Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program CHALLENGING BEHAVIOURS PROJECT: ADULTS Using the analysis of prevalence, course, co-morbidity and burden to inform the model of care 2011 — The ACI’s Brain Injury Rehabilitation Directorate (BIRD) worked with the NSW Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program (BIRP) clinicians and consumers from the 14 specialist brain injury units to investigate the prevalence, course, burden and comorbidities of challenging behaviour associated with TBI and to identify how to improve outcomes for patients and families.
Positive Behavioural Support: a learning resource 2012 — The learning resource aims to equip participants with knowledge in positive behaviour support (PBS) and to help participants begin to identify how they could use PBS in their practice
Protocol: School and Home-based Interventions forImproving Academic Achievement and SocialPerformance of School-Age Children andYoung Adults with Brain Injury 2012 — Following brain injury, children may be faced with multiple challenges, including the loss of previously attained skills, difficulties acquiring new learning due to memory challenges, impulsivity, and impaired decision making.
Resource Coordination for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury A Handbook for Human Service Professionals 2004 — This handbook is intended for use by human service professionals including; mental health professionals, case managers, clinicians, therapists, special educators and transitioning specialists.
Tests Commonly Used In a Neuropsychological Examination
The Impact of Intensive Community Based Rehabilitation on Community Participation and Life Satisfaction Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury 2012 — The need for effective post-acute rehabilitation for traumatic brain injuries has emerged out of both the limited effectiveness of inpatient models (Department of Health and Human Services [DHHS], 2001) and health care system changes that support reduced average length of inpatient stay (Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2008).
There’s Always Something That Works: Principles and Practices of Positive Support for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury and Problem Behaviors 2010 — This article summarizes literature on interventions positively affecting the behavioral outcomes for individuals with brain injury. This literature extends many of the traditional approaches to behavioral intervention and cognitive rehabilitation to include positive behavioral support and the development of personally meaningful activities for program development.
Traumatic Brain Injury: Unmet Support Needs of Caregivers and Families in Florida 2013 — Using the Stress Process Model of Caregiving, a caregiver needs assessment survey was developed and conducted to better understand the needs of individuals with a Traumatic Brain Injury and their caregivers. Survey results indicate that caregivers experience many challenges including unmet needs in areas of relational supports such as maintaining relationships, long-term emotional and financial support for themselves and the survivor, and the need for a patient or caregiver advocate.
VEP and Human Attention: Translation from Laboratory to Clinic 2015 — The purpose is to review recent studies from our laboratory that used the visual-evoked potential (VEP) to assess attention in both the visually-normal (VN) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) populations.
Vocational rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury: Models and services 2012 — : A recent systematic review suggests that around 40% of people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) return to work (RTW). Yet in the UK currently only a small minority of people with TBI receive vocational rehabilitation (VR) to enable a RTW.
You Wrote a Paper and I Made a Meatloaf: The Futilityof Meaning Making in the Absence of Context 2010 — Case illustrations of individuals with traumatic brain injury and developmental disabilities who participated in integrated and person-centered interventions are offered to explore a range of context-driven decision making processes and interactive competencies designed to facilitate meaning making in individuals with cognitive and communication challenges.