Monday, March 29, 2010

Traumatic Brain Injury/AMCHP Conference

This presentation provided several different models and resources to support children with TBI.


First -- EXCELLENT free and available website "Project LearNET".   This website provides, "Anytime access TBI consulting service to all schools and families without the cost of a TBI specialist". High quality, individualized support from this interactive website. Allows you to design a program for your TBI youth.  Developed by a grant to the Brain Injury Association of New York State. 


Second - BrainSTEPS is a school re-entry program from Pennsylvania.  It features a multi-disciplinary team that provides coordinated training and consultation for school teams in all areas of concern:  identification, IEP supports, interventions, long term planning and progress monitoring.  Online reporting tracks the students at www.brainsteps.net. Program Coordinator Brenda Eagan Brown offers to provide handouts  and other materials; she can be reached at eaganbrown@biapa.org.   Link to handout describing the program.

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