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September 25, 2000 - Focusing on Daily Challenges of Children and Adolescents with Brain Injuries

A Brain Injury Awareness Month Educational Seminar for Families and Professionals

Monday, September 25, 2000

CINCINNATI -- Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati, the Brain Injury Association of Ohio, Southwestern Ohio Special Education Regional Resource Center and the Drake Center will present a joint educational seminar, "Reintegration to School and Community for Youth with Traumatic Brain Injury" (TBI) on Thursday, Oct. 5, from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the Drake Center.

Presented by Roberta De Pompei, PhD, CCC-SP/A, the seminar focuses on the daily challenges of children and adolescents with Traumatic Brain Injury. Featured topics include behavioral characteristics of children with brain injury, learning difficulties and treatment and intervention methods.

Brain Injury Awareness Month is devoted to increasing knowledge about the "silent epidemic" of brain injury, its consequences and means of prevention. Currently, there are 5.3 million Americans living with disability caused by brain injury. Each year, one million people go to emergency rooms across the country, and 50,000 Americans die, due to brain injury.

Brain injury is the most frequent cause of death and disability among children and adolescents in the United States. "Studies have shown that children with TBI often have long-lasting impairments that interfere with learning as well as social and emotional development," states Linda Magness Stulz, school intervention coordinator.

"The best outcomes for children occur when information about how these impairments affect behavior and performance is shared with all teachers and significant persons in a child's world. Proactive and creative planning by the family, hospital and school helps the child be more successful in school and the community.", Magness Stulz says.

To attend the seminar, or obtain additional information about brain injury, please contact the Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati' School Intervention Program, in the Pediatric Rehabilitation Division, 513-636-3884.