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Scholarships dedicated to students with neurologic injuries and diseases are rare and difficult to find. Since, 2009, the Terrill Foundation has provided qualifying high school seniors throughout the 50 states whose lives have been changed by neurologic disease and brain injury have received assistance to further their educational goals at universities and technical schools. This
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association More kids suffer from traumatic brain injury than ever before. Half a million children get medial treatment for TBI each year. Did you know that US emergency departments treat more than 170,000 sports- and recreation-related TBIs, including concussions, in children and teens, each year? Did you know that children between 10 and
A recent MMWR report highlights the problem of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the United States. It summarizes how public health efforts can reduce the incidence of severe TBI and mitigate their short- and long-term consequences through primary prevention, early management, and comprehensive approaches to rehabilitation and community reintegration for TBI survivors. In addition,
Brain Injury Journey Magazine – Help, Hope, Healing is a first rate magazine for the Brain Injury community at large. We are pleased to offer the second issue for free by click here! For additional information about the magazine and to sign up to receive future editions, visit: www.lapublishing.com/brain-injury-journey-magazine Please be sure to share this magazine
The United States Brain Injury Alliance (USBIA), in preparation for several meetings with the congressional staff working on the reauthorization of the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Act, conducted a needs assessment of its 20 state member organizations in February, 2013 to identify the most pressing needs faced by people with brain injury and their caregivers.
The Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado has moved! The following is BIACO’s new address: 1385 South Colorado Boulevard Suite 606, Building A Denver, CO 80222 Please note the phone and fax numbers remain the same.
The Network for Public Health Law is hosting the 2012 Public Health Law Conference Practical Approaches to Critical Challenges October 10–12, 2012 Loews Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia Early registration at a discounted rate is open through September 12, 2012. The conference will include several concurrent sessions focusing on different public health law topics, such as