Understanding and Working Effectively with Students with Moderate to Severe Acquired Brain Injuries, Webinar

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Thursday, January 21, 2021 - 5:00pm to Friday, January 22, 2021 - 5:45pm
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Understanding and Working Effectively with Students with Moderate to Severe Acquired Brain Injuries, Sharon Grandinette, MS, ED, CBIST

Learning objectives

  1. Learn the unique presentation of children with moderate-severe acquired brain injuries, including TBI, brain tumors, strokes and other vascular accidents, anoxia/hypoxia, infections of the brain, exposure to toxins).
  2. Identify and address the cognitive, physical, and social access needs of students who are nonverbal and have limited to no motor skills.
  3. Appropriately direct the management of students whose healthcare needs impact their educational access by implementing student health care plans and working collaboratively with the child’s treating physicians/therapists and school nurse.
  4. Put into practice the current research-based strategies that are most effective for addressing academic, social, and neuro-behavioral challenges for students with moderate -severe ABI’s. Participants will be encouraged to actively provide information and solutions to questions

Participants will be encouraged to actively provide information and solutions to questions.

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The Brain Injury Advisory Council is sponsored by Nebraska VR.

This project was supported, in part by grant number 90TBSG0036-01-00, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201. Grantees undertaking projects under government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their findings and conclusions. Points of view or opinions do not, therefore, necessarily represent official Administration for Community Living policy.