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What Can You Do to Support Your Child's Recovery?

A concussion takes time to heal and parents can help their injured child with the process.

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How to Deal with Friends Falling Away After a Brain Injury

For an teenager with TBI, losing friends is devastating. Dr. Mariann Young talks about how she works with injured teens as well as their friends to help them deal with the changes that come with a brain injury.

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Reading Social Situations After a Brain Injury

For teens with TBI, the process going through the stages of normal development is disrupted or forever altered. Dr. Mariann Young talks about how to help teens and their parents navigate adolescence.

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How Schools Can Help Kids with TBI

Lots of ways schools can help kids with TBI — from providing note-takers to assigning a lunchtime buddy.

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Ten Ways to Make College More Friendly to Veterans

Karen Gross, who served as a senior policy advisor to the US Department of Education in Washington, DC, writes about the opportunities and challenges facing returning veterans when

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Letter to My Child's Teachers and Administrators

"Please remember that he is just a 9-year-old boy who has come through more than many of us can truly understand."

Accepting Accommodations in College for Invisible Injuries

Bob Duncan talks about his son with at TBI having to swallow his pride and accept the academic accommodations offered at his college.

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Using Technology as a Learning Tool for Kids with Brain Injury

Nicole Wight says using an iPad and a TouchStart computer has helped her son with severe brain injury make significant strides in his learning.

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BrainSTARS: Planning

For kids with TBI who have trouble with planning, adult help is often required to anticipate and organize events, projects, and chores.

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BrainSTARS: Memory

To help children develop better memory skills after TBI,

Parents and teachers can teach children with TBI-related memory issues how to pay careful, focused attention and engage actively in thinking about what is being learned.

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BrainSTARS: Organization

Parents and teachers of students with organizational weaknesses from TBI need to help them set up and maintain organizational systems.

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Can People Go Back to School After a Brain Injury?

Dr. Heechin Chae says most people with TBI can return to school but may have to develop new ways to study and learn.

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In the Classroom: Traumatic Brain Injury ... What Teachers Should Know

In the Classroom: Traumatic Brain Injury â€¦ What Teachers Should Know

What questions should teachers ask when working with a child with a brain injury?

In the Classroom: Academic Accommodations to Minimize Frustration and Encourage Success

Students with TBI can be easily frustrated with academic tasks. Here are ideas for teachers and parents.

Positive Behavior Supports

Teachers need to be proactive in dealing with students with TBI who present challenging behaviors.

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In the Classroom: Friendship and Peer Acceptance

Help students with TBI maintain what friendships they can and replace those that will inevitably end by providing structures of support.

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With TBI, Sometimes We Don't Know What We Don't Know

Families and schools need to communicate in order to make sure potential injury-related learning problems are not overlooked in a child with TBI.

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At Home and at School: Working as a Team to Help a Child with TBI

Listening, showing empathy, being respectful, and opening up to creative collaboration are all key ways parents and teachers can work together to help a child with brain injury.

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How Parents Can Best Work with the Teachers of their Child with TBI

Dr. Ann Glang talks about how parents can approach and work with teachers to ensure success in school for their child with brain injury.

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Being Flexible and Creative in Helping Children with TBI Navigate School

Dr. Ann Glang talks about how school teachers and staff in collaboration with parents can help a child with TBI have a fulfilling and successful experience during school and beyond.

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How Schools Can Prepare to Work with Children with TBI

Kids with TBI have similar challenges to kids with other disabilities, but they also have uneven skill profiles, meaning they may be strong in one area or academic subject but deficient in another.

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Helping Teachers Working with Children with TBI

Teachers and staff need a knowledge and understanding of brain injury and what modifications kids with a brain injury may need in order to help their students most effectively.

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College Students with TBI Need to Learn How They Learn Best

To succeed in college, students with TBI need to learn what specifically they need in order to do well academically.

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Programs in High Schools Can Help Teens with TBI Set New or Different Goals

Many high schools offer programs in technology or culinary arts, for example, that are one way for teens with TBI to learn some skills as jumping off places for future career opportunities.

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For Adolescents with TBI, Getting Help with Plan B

If a student with TBI fails in college, go back to your family and circle of support to see what went wrong and what you can do differently to succeed in college or work.

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