Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny….

            C.S. Lewis

ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS

• American Music Therapy Association, https://www.musictherapy.org/

• A Place To Be http://www.aplacetobeva.org/

• Brain Injury Association of Virginia, https://www.biav.net/

• National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), https://acl.gov/about-acl/about-national-institute-disability-independent-living-and-rehabilitation-research

• Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA), http://www.biausa.org/

• Brain Injury Services (BIS), http://braininjurysvcs.org/

• The Loudoun County Volunteer Rescue Squad, http://www.loudounrescue.org/

• National Resource Center for Traumatic Brain Injury, http://www.tbinrc.com/

• Virginia Brain Injury Council, https://www.vadars.org/vbic.asp

• WETA’s BrainLine, http://www.brainline.org/resources/

MEDICAL RESOURCES

• Kennedy Krieger Institute, https://www.kennedykrieger.org/rehabilitation

• National Institute of Health (NIH), Traumatic Brain Injury Information Page, https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Traumatic-Brain-Injury-Information-Page

• Centers For Disease and Prevention, https://www.cdc.gov/

DEFINING AND PREVENTION

• Mild TBI Symptoms, http://www.traumaticbraininjury.com/symptoms-of-tbi/mild-tbi-symptoms/

• Severe TBI Symptoms, http://www.traumaticbraininjury.com/symptoms-of-tbi/severe-tbi-symptoms/

• Prevention, http://www.traumaticbraininjury.com/prevention/

• Your Brain and What It Does, http://www.brainwaves.com/

EDUCATION

• IEP Goals for students with TBI, sample, https://cbirt.org/back-school/if-symptoms-persist

• Special Education Guide, http://www.specialeducationguide.com/disability-profiles/traumatic-brain-injury/

• Beamer Learns About Traumatic Brain Injury, (Come with Beamer and his best friend Kyle as they learn about Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) from Dr. Schreiber, who in real life is a Pediatric Neurologist, and from Olivia, who in real life has a TBI. Join them on their journey as they learn what a TBI is, and how to be good supportive friends for Olivia.) By Cindy Chambers

THERAPIES

• A Place To Be, http://www.aplacetobeva.org/ 

• Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, http://dvbic.dcoe.mil/about/tbi-military

• Arts for All Loudoun,  https://www.artsforallloudoun.org/

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