TOPIC: Traumatic Brain Injury - Implications for Schools

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Training
• Case Management in the School Context

Introductory Packet
• Attention Problems: Intervention and Resources
• Conduct and Behavior Problems in School Aged Youth
• Learning Problems and Learning Disabilities
• Least Intervention Needed: Toward Appropriate Inclusion of Students with Special Needs

Resource Aid Packet
• Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools

Information Resources
• About Childhood Trauma and What Schools Can Do
• About Neurodiversity
• Addressing Student-Athlete Anxiety
• Chronic Illness and Schooling: An Introductory Overview Outline
• Trauma: A Barrier to Learning and Teaching

Technical Aids
• School-Based Client Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care

Practice and Guidance Notes
• Mental Health Assistance at Schools: Overview of Practices for Problem Identification, Triage, Referral, and Monitoring Care
• Supports for Students Deemed At-Risk

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet


Prevention

• Assessment and Management of Concussion in Sports
• Traumatic Brain Injury Prevention Tips

Publications
• Supporting the Social Well-Being of Children and Youth with Disabilities

Post-TBI
• Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents
• School-based Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion Management Program

Resource Guides
• Brain Injury: A Guide for School Nurses
• The Management of Traumatic Brain Injury in Children
• Medical-School Partnership in Guiding Return to School Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Youth

Other/General Info
• Parents’ experiences of their child’s return to school following acquired brain injury (ABI): Asystematic review of qualitative studies
• Rates of Hospitalization Related to Traumatic Brain Injury --- Nine States, 2003

Related Agencies and Websites
• Brain Injury Association-USA
• Children's Safety Network 
• National Association of State Head Injury Administrators
• National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
• National Rehabilitation Information Center

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