The following resources were designed for, and are available free of charge to families and persons with brain injury who request them from Brain Injury Association of Florida. Professionals can use the order form below, email or call for more information: 850-410-0103.
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FOR THE PRODUCTS DESCRIBED BELOW.
Access Guide to Community Services For Survivors of Brain Injuries and Their Families - $14.95 each
This comprehensive guide, produced in an easy-to-read format, is updated and $10 less than the previous version. This guide provides community, state, and national resource information in eight areas of concern to survivors and their families. Emphasizes self-advocacy. Now comes with a separate, portable 50+ page resource directory, with the contact information for 150+ local, state and national resources, compact enough to take with you when visiting with service providers. Suitable for survivors of TBI and their families living in the state of Florida.
Brain Injury: A Family Guide - $3.50 each Now available online - Click here to download pdf version.
A 43-page booklet, briefly describes the nature, consequences, and phases of recovery of a brain injury. Available in English or Spanish. Suitable for moderate to severe injuries in the early weeks post injury or when patient remains in coma-like state for an extended period of time.
Making Life Work: A Family Guide for Life at Home (2003 edition) - $7.95 each
A 46-page manual, designed to help make the transition from the rehabilitation facility to home and to assist family members in managing cognitive and behavioral changes often occurring with traumatic brain injury. See accompanying videos listed below. Appropriate when families need guidance in managing persistent cognitive and behavioral changes after rehabilitation.
Making Life Work video $24.95 each
Addresses issues involved in-home care. Three families with severely injured members discuss how they’ve used structure, repetition and consistency to help the recovery process continue. Excellent for group discussion as well as individual family interaction and planning. All three parts now on one videotape.
Part 1: Coming Home (42 mins) Part 2: Coping Strategies (30 mins) Part 3: Living Skills (34 mins)
The Brain Injury Handbook: An Introductory Guide to Understanding Brain Injury for Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Professionals (2003 edition) $6.95 each
This 33-page booklet, created for and available to vocational rehabilitation counselors and professionals, discusses the nature of brain injury, functional limitations that often accompany the injury, readiness for VR, cognitive rehabilitation and involving the family in the VR process.
BSCIP Statewide Designated Facilities Directory
Now available at the Florida Department of Health, Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program website.
Minor Brain Injury: A Mind Numbing Experience (2003 Edition) $2.00 each
This 12-page booklet gives an overview of the experience of minor brain injury and answers to commonly asked questions. Appropriate when there is loss of consciousness of 30 minutes or less and problems that remain unresolved after 3 – 6 weeks.
A Consumer's Guide for Selecting Appropriate Legal, Medical, and Rehabilitation Professionals After Brain Injury (2003 edition) $2.00 each
16-page booklet designed to help families traverse the maze of choosing qualified professional service providers.
HELPS© card ---up to 10 maximum FREE
A brief screening device for TBI. Used by professionals, coaches, teachers and anyone trying to assess whether a person might have a TBI.
Faces of Brain Injury Video -Closed-captioned 8-minute video focuses on real-life experiences of people who have sustained a brain injury.
Mild TBI Fact Sheets/Per Pad of 25 sheets - Click here to read the fact sheet or download a pdf version. A sheet of facts about mild traumatic brain injury creating through a colloquium of brain injury professionals and adapted from the National Association of Head Injury Administrators Fact Sheet.
