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3.26.10 | Bancroft Expert Offers Tips on Brain Injury Prevention
Recently, Dan Keating, Ph.D., Vice President of Family Services and Government Relations of Bancroft, authored an article on brain injury prevention tips, which was featured in the March online issue of Exceptional Parent. In the article, Keating discusses the importance of parents and caregivers understanding the greatest risk factors for their children and outlines six head injury prevention tips to be aware of as spring approaches and children are spending more time outdoors playing sports, riding bikes and traveling in cars.
3.26.10 | New Ask the Expert: What is assistive technology?
The Assistive Technology Act of 1998 (ATA) defines assistive technology devices and assistive technology services as follows:
Assistive technology devices: any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off-the-shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.
Assistive technology services: any service that directly assists an individual with a disability in the selection, acquisition, or use of an assistive technology device.
3.15.10 | Brick Day Treatment Services to host an open house
Bancroft’s Day Treatment Services for adults with acquired brain injuries in Brick, New Jersey, has moved to a new location. Now housed in a larger space, we are able to serve more individuals, offer on-site physical, occupational and speech therapy, as well as neuropsychological evaluations. Join us on Friday, March 19 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for an open house. Light refreshments will be served and tours of the facility will be offered, with brief remarks at 11 a.m. Click on the link below for a copy of the invitation, and for directions, click here.
3.4.10 | Brain Injury Awareness Month
March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month. Did you know that every 21 seconds, one person in the U.S. sustains a traumatic brain injury? And, of the 1.4 million people who sustain a brain injury each year in the U.S...
• 50,000 die
• 235,000 are hospitalized
• 1.1 million are treated and released from an emergency department
An estimated 5.3 Million Americans—a little more than 2% of the U.S. population—currently live with disabilities resulting from traumatic brain injury.*
This is a family issue. And, so during Brain Injury Awareness Month, we should all consider the steps we can take to protect our children’s heads.