Ninety-nine percent of services kids will need after a TBI will be in the school setting. Teachers are key.
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Teachers are our #1 target. Teachers, school nurses, school administrators--that's who
we want to target. Ninety-nine percent of the services that these children need
and the rehabilitation they need is going to occur in a school setting.
That's the way things work in this country, and that's the way it should be.
Teachers are, most of the time, more than willing to learn about this
and want to learn about it. So there are programs that have been developed
by some colleagues out in Oregon to provide wonderful online training
for teachers to go in and in 25 minutes learn a bit about what brain injury is.
And there are a number of resources of teachers who can go out and work with
special educators to really understand what brain injury is and what it does.
There's actually a program out in California where they're actually incorporating brain injury
into their special education teaching curriculum, which is
one of the first in the nation to do this, which I think is because of--kind of--the
growing awareness of what this problem is.
Produced by Victoria Tilney McDonough and Brian King, BrainLine.
Deborah Little, PhD is an associate professor of Neurology & Rehabilitation, Anatomy & Cell Biology, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, and Psychology at the University of Illinois. The focus of the work in her laboratory is to identify clinically-relevant MRI markers of injury in persons with a history of traumatic brain injury with a focus on the use of diffusion tensor imaging.
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