• May 25, 2015
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    Children with ABI and Speech Therapy
    About ABI, Children & Youth

    For decades scientists believed that children with an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) would do better than adults with ABI.  The reasoning was based on the fact that because adult brains have already been developed and children had ‘plastic’ (changing, […]

  • May 25, 2015
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    Children & Youth
    About ABI, Children & Youth

    Returning To School Following a brain injury, the academic needs of students often change and schools may need to find different ways of supporting them. The Education Act requires that all school boards provide special education programming for pupils […]

  • May 25, 2015
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    Warmline at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
    About ABI, Caregiver/Family

    Warmline helps parents and clients find answers to childhood disability questions Canada’s largest children’s rehabilitation hospital, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in partnership with Cisco Canada, has launched a warmline to help parents and clients navigate the health-care system to find […]

  • May 25, 2015
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    What Brain Injury Survivors Want You to Know
    About ABI, Caregiver/Family

    Barbara J. Webster I need a lot more rest than I used to. I’m not being lazy. I get physical fatigue as well as a “brain fatigue.” It is very difficult and tiring for my brain to think, process, and […]

  • May 25, 2015
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    Be A Successful Care-giver
    About ABI, Caregiver/Family

    Compassion fatigue affects care-givers or service providers who, on a regular basis, deal with individuals with serious injuries.   Set personal limits by learning when to say “no”. Compassion fatigue occurs when one oversteps his/her personal limits and symptoms […]

  • May 25, 2015
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    Caregiver/Family
    About ABI, Caregiver/Family

    Be a Successful Care-Giver Compassion fatigue affects care-givers or service providers who, on a regular basis, deal with individuals with serious injuries. Lost & Found: What Brain Injury Survivors Want You to Know Warmline at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation […]

  • May 25, 2015
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    BIST Beacon Newsletters
    About ABI

    The BIST Beacon is sent out to all BIST members. It includes information on BIST’s activities and news related to ABI. Click the links below the see past issues of The Beacon. November 2012 July 2012 April 2012 January […]

  • May 25, 2015
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    Brain Injury Resources
    About ABI

    Brain Injury Associations National Association Brain Injury Canada Provincial Association Ontario Brain Injury Association Southwestern Ontario Brain Injury Association of London and Region Brain Injury Association of Waterloo – Wellington Brain Injury Association of Windsor & Essex Southcentral Ontario […]

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