Educator Resources

Website Resources

• Brain Injury Alliance Of Colorado - Brain injury resource navigation and educational consultation.

• Brainline - A national multimedia project offering information and resources about preventing, treating, and living with TBI.

• Brainline For Kids - Information and resources for families and educators.

• Centers For Disease Control And Prevention - Basic information, data, statistics, reports, fact sheets. etc. on TBI and concussion.

• Centers For Disease Control And Prevention – Heads Up - Provides tools to help educators, coaches, providers, and parents recognize, respond to, and minimize the risk of concussion or other serious brain injury.

• Centre For Neuro Skills - A monthly update of brain injury news.

• Get Schooled On Concussions - Offers a series of one-page concussion fact sheets for teachers, administrators, school nurses, counselors and parents.

• Lash And Associates - Information and resources on traumatic brain injury, concussion, blast injury, and PTSD.

• National Association Of State Head Injury Administrators - Information on brain injury and juvenile justice systems/corrections, state special education definitions and resource materials.

• Project Learnet - Assists parents and teachers to identify useful procedures to help students in school and at home. Instructional videos are utilized to teach material.

• TBI Center On Brain Injury Research And Training - Brain Injury Education Resources

Presentations

• Brain Injury and Behavior By Wendy Adams Ed.S., NCSP and Dr. Karen McAvoy
• Juvenile Justice Workshops By Gavin Attwood, Liz Gerdeman, Patricia Colella, Judy Dettmer, Karen McAvoy, Kristy Werther, Max Winkler, and Jessica Dupuy
• Brain Injury 101 By Judy L. Dettmer
• Instructional Strategies for Elementary Students with TBI By Susan J. Roland
• Instructional Strategies for Secondary Students with TBI By Randy Thomas
• Brain Injury and Executive Functioning By Rachel Toplis, PhD and Dr. Jonelle Neighbor
• Intervention for Students with MTBI By Donna Detmar-Hanna & Karen McAvoy

On Demand Learning

• What is Brain Injury?
• Youth Considerations at Home and in School
• Children can Learn about Building a Healthy Brain
• Challenging Behavior and Executive Function (video modules)
• Brain Injury: Special Education Criteria and Social Emotional Intervention
• Eligibility and School-Based Inter-Disciplinary Assessment and Intervention: A Common Sense Approach
  • Part 1 – Understanding Brain Injury and the Colorado Academic Standards
  • Part 2 – Typical Impacts and interdisciplinary Team Approach
  • Part 3 – Special Education Criteria
  • Part 4 – Assessment and Intervention Overview and Resources