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Study describes the longitudinal course of neurological examination-based motor abnormalities after severe TBI.
Examination of the prevalence and characteristics of auditory dysfunction in patients with TBI who were admitted to a Department of Veterans Affairs TBI inpatient unit before and after Operation Iraqi Freedom. Addresses the need for development and implementation of strategies for diagnosis and management of hearing loss and tinnitus.
Article reports the initial implementation of the Polytrauma Network Site (PNS) clinic, which is a key component of the Department of Veterans Affairs Polytrauma System of Care and serves military personnel returning from combat with complex physical injuries and emotional trauma.
Discusses traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to closed mechanisms causing strain injuries to axons that increase in number and severity as injury severity increases. Axons that project up from the brain stem are vulnerable, even in milder concussive injuries, and include axons that participate in key monoaminergic pathways.
Training that provides VR counselors a general working knowledge of the types of hearing loss, the psychosocial issue involved, and vocational accommodations. Includes handouts and Lecture PDF. The lecture PDF has been digitized from a power point format.
Training that provides an overview of the major mood disorders,(depression, dysthymia, bipolar, mania, and hypomania). Explores treatment options and strategies to support someone with a mood disorder. Includes information on medications.
This report is a broad assessment of the employment status of people with disabilities. One of its goals is to present best practices in the public and private sectors and the public policies and initiatives that facilitate an increase in employment opportunities for people with disabilities.
Document explains how to teach initial sight words to students with intensive educational needs. Initial sight word reading involves teaching students to read their first one to twenty or more words.
Newsletter by the Disability Access Project at Spirit Lake Consulting, Inc. Collection of best newsletter articles. Miniwakan Tiyospaye in Dakota means "Spirit Lake Family."Information for people with disabilities and chronic illness and their families residing on or near Indian reservations.
Monthly newsletter. This issue discusses emotional reactions to a diagnosis of a disability. Features two stories of individuals coming to terms with their disabilities, ADHD and paraplegia.