Brain Injury « Disabilities – Conditions

• A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is defined as a blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the function of the brain.

Articles & Publications

• Florida Hospital Defends Secretly Deporting Patient (Yahoo News – 7/23/09)
  All sides agree on one thing in a strange case of a South Florida hospital that secretly repatriated a seriously brain injured patient back to Guatemala.
• Impact of Early Intervention on Outcome After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (American Academy of Petiatrics)
  A basic article on mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and early intervention.
• Michigan Resource Guide for Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury and their Familes (8/2007)
  Info on available aid and services, along with explanations of syptoms and the impacts for individuals and families.
• Traumatic Brain Injury (About.com)
  Traumatic Brain Injury can have a significant impact on classroom performance and may affect cognitive, social, physical and psychological functioning which can vary from being quite severe or to being quite mild depending on the amount of damage. TBI usually results from accidents or from a blow to the head. TBI isn't used for a person born with a brain injury or injured during birth. For the most part, every brain injury is different as the part of the brain involved in the injury may vary. Many children will have lifelong disabilities as a direct result of TBI.
• What a Way to Come Home
  An article about a U.S. Marine who was blinded and sustained a traumatic brain injury in Iraq. Also see "Home Fires" blog for his entry.

Organizations & Services

• American Academy for the Certification of Brain Injury Specialists
  Info from certification exam preparation course (Legal and Ethnical Issues)
• Brain Injury Association of America
  Serving and representing individuals, families and professionals who are touched by a life-altering, often devastating, traumatic brain injury (TBI).
• Brain Injury Association of Michigan
  A non-profit organization that brings together people with brain injury, their families, friends, and concerned professionals to improve the quality of life that people experience after brain injury.
• Brain Injury Resource Center
  Services and resources on this site reflect the best practices in the field of Traumatic Brain Injury.
• BrainLine.org
  Preventing, treating and living with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
• Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
  Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a rare brain disorder that causes serious and permanent problems with control of gait and balance.

Resources: Websites & Blogs

• Brain Injury News and Information Blog – DeCaro & Kaplen, LLP
  The latest news and information on brain injury, traumatic epilepsy and other brain trauma.
• Disability Groups File Amicus in Brtancourt v. Trinitas (futility case)
  Trinitas Hospital, determined of its own accord to withdraw life-sustaining treatment from a patient. Treating him, the hospital’s doctors said, was “harming” him because it was “futile,” since he would not recover from the brain damage he had incurred post-operatively at Trinitas on January 22, 2008, and that he was “dying,” despite having no terminal diagnosis.
• Information Connections
  A website for parents of children with developmental disabilities and chronic diseases serves as an information portal to resources with a special focus on autism, cerebral palsy, ADHD, Down syndrome, and traumatic brain injury, among others.