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The All About Traumatic Brain Injury is a leading online educational resource with doctor-reviewed articles pertaining to TBI.
The American Academy for the Certification of Brain Injury Specialists (AACBIS) offers a voluntary national certification program for both entry-level staff and experienced professionals working in brain injury services. AACBIS provides staff and professionals the opportunity to learn important information about brain injury, to demonstrate their learning in a written examination, and to earn a nationally recognized credential.
ARN's mission is to promote and advance professional rehabilitation nursing practice through education, advocacy, collaboration, and research to enhance the quality of life for those affected by disability and chronic illness.
The Autism Society of New Hampshire is dedicated to individuals with Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). Individuals with Autism/PDD have the right and capability to pursue happiness, make meaningful choices, and realize their full potential. Through education, the Society hopes to foster the understanding, unqualified acceptance, and genuine appreciation of individuals with Autism/PDD.
BrainandSpinalCord.org was created and is sponsored by the Newsome Law Firm as a knowledge-base for brain injury and spinal cord injury survivors. While the site is relatively new, we hope to eventually have answers and information about all of the most frequently asked questions and important issues facing survivors. Our daily blog will have information about news and developments. We will have in-depth articles, links to resources, and commentary on developments in research and recovery. We are also building a video library that will have basic information that survivors need to know about. Our library will also have videos of other brain injury and spinal cord injury survivors and their families who will talk about lessons they have learned and tell their personal stories about hope and coping. If requested, we will also try to provide additional help and information. Our goal in creating BrainandSpinalCord.org is for the website to be the most reliable, timely and complete resource on the internet for brain injury and spinal cord injury survivors. Our hope is that this site will become relied upon as a trustworthy resource for the community and for those who are searching for information.
The Brain Injury Association of America was founded in 1980 by a group of individuals who wanted to improve the quality of life for their family members who had sustained brain injuries. Despite phenomenal growth over the past two decades, the Association remains committed to its grassroots. The Brain Injury Association of America encompasses a national network of more than 40 chartered state affiliates across the country, as well as hundreds of local chapters and support groups.
The Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire is a private, non-profit, family and consumer run organization representing over 5000 New Hampshire residents with acquired brain disorders and stroke. The BIANH was founded in 1983 by NH parents seeking to bring home their brain injured children from out of state nursing homes. Our mission is to create a better future through brain injury prevention, education, advocacy and support.
This site was developed as part of a grant project titled, "Services and Support for Persons with Brain Injury" implemented by the Department of Recreation Leisure Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This site is designed to be accessible for persons who have varying abilities for processing written and visual content.
TA person with brain injury may have just a single opportunity for rehabilitation. The quality of life that follows treatment often depends on making the right placement decision.
Centre for Neuro Skills (CNS) offers each client the highest quality rehabilitation possible.
In 1996, the Family Resource Connection (FRC) was launched as a collaborative effort of New Hampshire Departments of Health & Human Services, Education, and the NH State Library—as a statewide library and clearinghouse, whose primary mission was to serve the needs of NH's children by means of providing information, resources, and support for NH families, caregivers, educators, and other professionals concerning aspects of caring for, educating and raising children—with an emphasis on children with special needs.
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Granite State Independent Living (GSIL) is a statewide non-profit that recognizes the fact that all of us will need some type of support in the course of our lives. We offer the tools and resources so that individuals can participate as fully as they choose in their lives, families, and communities.
This firm specializes in publications, training and information on the treatment and rehabilitation of brain injuries and concussion in children and adults. They offer training programs, books, manuals, tip cards on brain injury that can be used in hospitals, schools, vocational settings and rehabilitation programs. Forums on brain injury for families and survivors give support and strategies to adjust and cope with difficult situations.
The New Hampshire Chapter of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association's mission is to provide service to those individuals with spinal cord injury and disease, their families and the community by being a comprehensive provider of resource location, support, education, awareness, and advocacy; as well as to work cooperatively with all disability organizations and health facilities.
The most important aspect of the New Hampshire Nurses' Association is that it is a membership organization. As a membership organization all of our accomplishments achieved over our 99 year history are attributable to the hard work and diligence of our members & volunteers. What this means for our current and prospective members is that this association is whatever you make of it, and it can become whatever you want it to be.
The New Hampshire Pediatric Society is the state chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Our membership consists of over 180 dedicated physicians from across the state.
Vocational Rehabilitation is a joint State/Federal program that seeks to empower people to make informed choices, build viable careers, and live more independently in the community. To that end, NH Vocational Rehabilitation supports the following programs and priorities: Rehabilitation Services; Transition; Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired; Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing; Independent Living; and Disability Determination Services.
People First of New Hampshire, the statewide self-advocacy organization started operation in 1992, celebrating it's ten year anniversary in the spring of 2002. Now, in 2006, there are 14 recognized self-advocacy chapters located throughout our state. People who experience disability are members of local self-advocacy chapters. Each chapter elects two representatives to serve on the board of directors of People First of NH, making this organization the only non-profit in the state that is run completely by people who experience disability.
TBI Central comprises the Web site of the Brain Injury Research Center (BIRC) at Mount Sinai. The BIRC has a sole focus on conducting research addressing the challenges of traumatic brain injury, or TBI.
This article, written by Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) president & CEO Susan Connors, originally appeared in the Summer 2007 issue of the BIAA's publication, THE Challenge! It is republished on Crotched Mountain's website in pdf and text format with permission from the author. It addresses four reasons as to why there has been so little research in the field of brain injury. The author acknowledges several contributors including John Richards, MSW, associate director of the Brain Injury Center at Crotched Mountain.
This article is also available in Text Format.
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