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Tag Archives: brain injury
To Your Health!
It’s National Health Education Week, sponsored by the Society for Public Health Education. Health education range from large-scale campaigns, like tobacco-free kids or getting 30 minutes of exercise, to outreach to underserved communities, like bringing farmer’s markets to inner city neighborhoods. … Continue reading
Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, August 24 – Friday, August 28
Aquí puede leer este artículo en español. Education: Amazon e-book deal with NYC public schools postponed as Blind advocates say it would leave out visually impaired students (New York Daily News) New York City education officials have shelved a $30 … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly News Roundup
Tagged alternative standardized tests for students with disabilities, ASD, autism spectrum disorders, brain injury, Departamento de Educación, Department of Education, diagnostic device for traumatic brain injury, electronic books, fathers of children with autism, FITGuard mouthgard, leg amputation, leg prosthesis, locus coeruleus, long-term memory, Medicare coverage of prostheses, premature infants and ADHD, robotic skeleton, students with disabilities, tetraplegia, Tough Mudder, U.S. Education Department, wheelchair controlled with chin
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Disability News Weekly Roundup – Monday, May 12 – Friday, May 16
Human Interest: A man became a math wiz after suffering brain injuries. Researchers think they know why. (The Washington Post) A severe concussion has turned a furniture salesman from Tacoma, Washington into a mathematical genius who sees the world through … Continue reading
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Tagged acquired savant syndrome, ADA, ASD, attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder adhd, autism spectrum disorder, behavior training software, bipolar disorder, brain injury, cerebral palsy, charter schools, deaf and hard of hearing, FBI, Interstate Telecommunications Relay Services Fund, job interview training, mindfulness, mobile phone app, robotic prosthesis, section 504, special education, traumatic brain injury, Xbox One Kinect
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Webinar: Reliability and Error in Measurement Instruments developed with Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory
WEBINAR (Sponsored by the Analytic Special Interest Group of the TBI Model Systems) Reliability and Error in Measurement Instruments developed with Classical Test Theory and Item Response Theory Presenter: Alan J. Kozlowski, Ph.D., B.Sc (PT) Date/Time: April 22, 2014; 4:00 … Continue reading
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Tagged brain injury, classical test theory, instrument development, item response theory, measurement, webinar
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Participants Needed for a Health Information Needs Study
The Model System Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC), which is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), is conducting a study on the health information needs of African Americans and Latinos with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Currently, … Continue reading
Hispanic Heritage Month: Traumatic Brain Injury Model System
During 2013’s National Hispanic Heritage Month (HHM), we have looked at various topics affecting Hispanics with disabilities including NARIC’s Spanish language services, explained how people-first language works, looked at cultural competency of rehab professionals in treating/working with Hispanics/Latinos with spinal … Continue reading
Posted in Proyecto
Tagged brain injury, Disabilities, disability, health disparities, Hispanic Heritage Month, knowledge translation, minorities, model system, Model System Knowledge Translation Center, MSKTC, NARIC, National Hispanic Heritage Month, NIDRR, NIDRR projects, NIDRR research, North Texas Burn Rehabilitation Model System, people with disabilities, rehabilitation, Spanish, Spanish-language, TBI, TBIMS, traumatic brain injury, traumatic brain injury model system, VCTBIMS, VCU, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Commonwealth University Brain Injury Model System
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Health Outcomes Research, Capacity Building, and Underserved Populations with Spinal Cord and Traumatic Brain Injuries
The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research’s (NIDRR) funding priority Capacity Building for Rehabilitation Research and Training covers various project types including those dealing with disability and rehabilitation research. Today, we will look at the Center on Health Outcomes … Continue reading
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Tagged articles, brain injury, capacity building, Disabilities, disability, health disparities, health outcomes, Hispanics, Latinos, minorities, NIDRR, NIDRR projects, NIDRR research, people with disabilities, person with SCI, person with spinal cord injury, person with TBI, person with traumatic brain injury, rehabilitation, rehabilitation research, SCI, spinal cord injury, TBI, training, traumatic brain injury, underserved populations
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Second Impact Syndrome
Amid the recent growing concern over concussions in youth, collegiate, and professional contact sports is a lesser known yet serious head injury: second impact syndrome or SIS occurs when an athlete suffers a blow to the head too soon after … Continue reading
Posted in Report, Uncategorized
Tagged athletes, athletics, brain, brain injury, CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, concussion, cuncussions, education, head injury, injury, MLB, NBA, nfl, NHL, owusu, prevention, second impact syndrome, sis, sports, teddowusu, teddy, treatment
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3rd annual Santa Clara Valley Brain Injury Conference: Building on the Legacy of Coma to Community!
The 3rd annual Santa Clara Valley Brain Injury Conference: Building on the Legacy of Coma to Community is the updated continuation of the Coma to Community Conference hosted by Santa Clara Valley Medical Center from 1977 through 1995. The main … Continue reading