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Learning How to Learn in College, Especially After a Brain Injury

The most successful students with TBI in college are those who know their strengths and weaknesses, how to ask for help when they need it, and how to put the focus on how to learn they can rather than how they can't.

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens

Dr. Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa talks about her program where peer counselors use their own experiences moving forward after a TBI to teach other adolescents positive and effective habits.

What Can Students with TBI Do If They Flunk Out?

Dr. Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa outlines several strategies to help high school and college students if they are not succeeding academically.

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Helping Teens with TBI Use Social Media Appropriately

Posting an inappropriate message on Facebook or inundating friends with texts can be social media pitfalls for any teen, especially those with a brain injury.

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Turning Ambitions into Reality with the Help of Voc Rehab

Helping people with brain injury, like this young man, figure out what they want to do with their lives is crucial.

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Learning to Minimize Risky Behaviors for Teens with TBI

Dr. Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa talks about education and effective programs to help teens with TBI make positive choices.

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Different Ways to Teach Health and Wellness to Adolescents with TBI

Returning to team sports is not the only way to be active and engaged for kids with a TBI.

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Helping Adolescents with TBI Transition to Independence

Dr. Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa talks about her research working with teens with TBI and their parents on readiness for transition to independence.

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For Teens, the Benefits of Vocational Rehabilitation Before Leaving High School

Dr. Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa talks about the advantages for adolescents with TBI to talk with their vocational rehab counselors before leaving high school.

Concussion in Sports

Here are some important steps to take to help prevent concussions and ensure the best outcome for athletes, teams, leaguse, and schools.

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The Shame of Embarrassment

Rosemary talks about how to deal with possible feelings of embarrassment for a loved one with TBI.

Rituals Promote Confidence

Caregiver Rosemary Rawlins talks about how rituals can help both caregivers and people with TBI move forward again.

The Expectant Caregiver

"Caregiver expectations can cloud over concrete facts. I now find it amazing how many times I had to be told that we would not go back to our old life before I believed it."

May I Have Your Attention, Please?

Rosemary talks about how mindfulness can help finally put to bed the monsters we've created in our own minds.

Independence Day

Independence means different things for people with TBI — and their caregivers. Rosemary shares her thoughts.

Heads Up: Concussion in High School Sports (A Fact Sheet for Athletes)

Atención: Concusión cerebral en los deportes de colegio (para el atleta)

A concussion can occur without the person losing consciousness. This fact sheet provides information to athletes about preventing, recognizing and responding to a concussion.

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Heads Up to Schools: A Fact Sheet for Parents

Atención: Concusión cerebral en los deportes de colegio (para los padres)

What is a concussion and what are the signs observed by parents or guardians?

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The Crash Reel

Snowboarder Kevin Pearce was training for the Olympics when he fell and sustained a severe TBI. Watch this clip from a new HBO documentary.

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5 Strategies for Finding Peace in the Turbulence of Caregiving

Five Strategies for Finding Peace in the Turbulence of Caregiving

"How can a caregiver tap into a sense of peace?" Here are a few strategies that worked for Rosemary.

A Natural Way to Restore the Body, Mind, and Spirit

Rosemary talks with Electra Liatos, a certified massage therapist, whose "fingers of love" have done just as much healing for Hugh and Rosemary as any other medicine.

I Have PTSD ... So What?

An essay about post-traumatic stress disorder written by someone who lives it every day and night.

Remembering Who You Are

Sarah Kishpaugh rediscovers her feisty sense of humor, which got temporarily buried in the maelstrom after her husband's TBI.

He Never Liked Cake

A brain injury can turn a family's life upside down. Add in adolescence. Read an excerpt from Janna Leyde's coming-of-age story — raw, honest, funny, heart-breaking and heart-affirming.

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The Father He Always Was

Hugh taught the girls how to walk, to ride a bike, to swim and surf. When a car struck him just days after their fourteenth birthday, he slept in a coma after two emergency brain surgeries in three days. One word woke him up: Daddy.

The Power of Mountain Pose — and Beyond

The Power of Mountain Pose â€” and Beyond

Janna Leyde, writer, yoga teacher, and daughter of a father with severe TBI, asks: "So how do we reconnect the mind and body? How do we find ourselves in the now?"