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NOTE: The internet links on this page will open in their own window, covering up this page. To return to this page, simply close the open window. BRAIN INJURY RESOURCES FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB INFORMATION ON BRAIN INJURY Difficulties After Brain Injury Neuropsychology Family Views (Carolyn Rocchio) Brain Injury Studies and Research ASSOCIATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS IOWA RESOURCES Area Education Agencies’ Brain Injury Resource Teams State University Disability Resources and Services ONLINE BRAIN INJURY SUPPORTS IOWA GOVERNMENT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FINDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION   INFORMATION ON BRAIN INJURY 1. Brain Injury FAQs - http://www.neuro.pmr.vcu.edu/FAQ/CATEGORY.htm 2. Traumatic Brain Injury Central - http://www.mssm.edu/tbicentral/ 3. National Resource Center for Traumatic Brain Injury - http://www.neuro.pmr.vcu.edu/mission.htm  4. Brain Injury Resource Center - http://www.headinjury.com 5. Traumatic Brain Injury Survival Guide - http://www.tbiguide.com 6. Facts about Traumatic Brain Injury - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/tbi/FactSheets/Facts_About_TBI.pdf 7. Traumatic Brain Injury Resource Directory - http://www.tbi-sci.org/tbird/main.html 8. COMPASS’ Brain Injury Website - http://www.iowacompass.org/braininjury.html  (Back to CATEGORIES) Difficulties After Brain Injury 9.  Dealing with Pain and Brain Injury - http://www.biausa.org/publications/roadToRehab1.pdf 10. Post Traumatic Headaches - http://www.biausa.org/publications/headache.htm 11. Cognition is the Key to the Way We Think and Act - http://www.biausa.org/publications/cognition_is_key.htm 12. Behavior Changes and Brain Injury - http://www.biausa.org/publications/roadToRehab4.pdf 13. Speech Communication After Brain Injury - http://www.biausa.org/publications/questionsaboutspeech.htm 14. Drug Therapy and Brain Injury - http://www.biausa.org/publications/roadToRehab6.pdf 15.    Spasticity and Brain Injury - http://www.biausa.org/publications/roadToRehab7.pdf 16.  Concussion and Mild Brain Injury - http://www.biausa.org/publications/roadToRehab8.pdf 17.  Iowa Gambling Treatment Program - http://www.1800betsoff.org (Back to CATEGORIES) Neuropsychology 18.  American Psychological Association – Division of Clinical Neuropsychology - http://www.div40.org/ 19. American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology - http://www.theabcn.org/abpp_diploma/index.html 20. Neuropsychology and Brain Injury - http://tbidoc.com 21.  Neuropsychology Central - http://www.neuropsychologycentral.com 22.  International Neuropsychological Society - http://www.the-ins.org 23.   Neuropsychological Assessment: A Key Piece of the Puzzle After Brain Injury - http://www.biausa.org/publications/neuro_asses_puzzle.htm (Back to CATEGORIES) Family Views (Carolyn Rocchio) 24.  Hope Springs Eternal - http://www.biausa.org/publications/hope_springs.htm 25.  Holiday Strategies - http://www.biausa.org/publications/holiday_strategies.htm 26.  The Positive Approach to Coping with Life After Brain Injury - http://www.biausa.org/publications/positiveapproachtocoping.htm 27.   Where Do We Go From Here? - http://www.biausa.org/publications/wheredowe.htm 28.   Pets: A Motivational Tool for Persons with Brain Injury - http://www.biausa.org/publications/pet_amotivationaltool.htm 29.  Safe Driving After Brain Injury - http://www.biausa.org/publications/safedriving.htm 30.  Entering or Re-Entering the Work Place After Brain Injury - http://www.biausa.org/publications/enter_work_place.htm 31.  Using Community Mental Health Centers - http://www.biausa.org/publications/usingcommmental.htm 32.  The Unvarnished Truth - There is no Cure for Brain Injury - http://www.biausa.org/publications/unvarnishedtruth.htm 33.  Unexpected Medical Problems Can Surface After Brain Injury - http://www.biausa.org/publications/unexpectedmedicalprobs.htm 34.  Brothers and Sisters: Brain Injury is a Family Affair - http://www.biausa.org/Pages/related articles... 35.  Epilepsy as a Consequence of Brain Injury - http://www.biausa.org/publications/epilepsy_as_a_consequence.htm 36.  Impaired Cognition and Behavior Problems DOUBLE TROUBLE! -   http://www.biausa.org/publications/impaired_cognition.htm 37.        Sexuality is a Family Matter -  http://www.biausa.org/publications/sexualityisafamily.htm (Back to CATEGORIES) Brain Injury Studies and Research 38.  Coming Into Focus: A Needs Assessment and State Plan for Iowans with Brain Injury – http://www.biausa.org/Iowa/docs/bineeds98.pdf 39.  Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems - http://main.uab.edu/tbi/show.asp?durki=56194 40.  Harris Poll 2000: Public Perceptions of Brain and Head Injuries -http://www.biausa.org/Pages/harris_poll_results.html 41.  NIH Consensus Development Program, Rehabilitation of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury -   http://consensus.nih.gov/1998/1998TraumaticBrainInjury109html.htm (Back to CATEGORIES) ASSOCIATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS  Brain Injury Association of Iowa - http://biaia.org 43.  Iowa’s Neighboring Brain Injury Associations – Click Here 44.  Brain Injury Association of America - http://www.biausa.org 45.  National Association of State Head Injury Administrators - http://www.nashia.org 46.  National Center on Physical Activity and Disability - http://www.ncpad.org 47.  Coma Recovery Association - http://www.comarecovery.org 48.  National Aphasia Association - http://aphasia.org 49.  National Headache Foundation - http://www.headaches.org 50. Vestibular Disorders Association - http://www.vestibular.org (Back to CATEGORIES) IOWA RESOURCES 51.  Iowa Brain Injury Resource Network Virtual Tote Bag - Choose either  Word or HTML 52.  Center for Disabilities and Development -http://www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/cdd 53.  Iowa Protection and Advocacy - http://www.ipna.org  54.  The Governor's Developmental Disabilities Council - http://www.iowa.gov/ddcouncil 55. Iowa Association of Community Providers – http://www.iowaproviders.org 56.  Iowa Respite and Crisis Care Coalition - http://www.irccc.com 57.  Iowa Training Consortium Training Calendar -  http://www.disabilitytraining.org/calendar/ 58.  Department of Human Services Policy Manuals - http://www.dhs.state.ia.us/PolicyAnalysis/PolicyManualPages/PolManual.htm 59. In-Home Health Related Services DHS Employee Policy Manual - http://www.dhs.state.ia.us/PolicyAnalysis.PDF     60.  The Mental Health, Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, and Brain Injury Commission – http://www.dhs.state.ia.us/mhdd/MIMRDDBI_commission/index.html (Back to CATEGORIES) Area Education Agencies’ Brain Injury Resource Teams 61.  Children's Brain Injury Resource Team's (BIRT) - http://www.iowa.gov/educate/content/view/578 62.  Keystone AEA 1 (Elkader) - http://www.aea1.k12.ia.us/birt/birt.html 63.  AEA 267 (Cedar Falls) - http://www.aea267.k12.ia.us/braininjury 64.  Prairie Lakes AEA 8 (Fort Dodge) - http://www.aea8.k12.ia.us  65.  Northwest AEA 4 (Sioux City) - http://www.nwaea.k12.ia.us 66.  Mississippi Bend AEA 9 (Bettendorf) - 67.  Grant Wood AEA 10 (Cedar Rapids) - http://www.aea10.k12.ia.us/divlearn/brain.html 68.  Heartland AEA 11 (Johnston) - http://www.aea11.k12.ia.us 69.  Des Moines Public Schools -  http://www.dmps.k12.ia.us/programs/4braininjury.htm 70.  Loess Hills AEA 13 (Council Bluffs) -http://www.aea13.k12.ia.us... 71.  Green Valley AEA 14 (Creston) - http://www.aea14.k12.ia.us/ 72.  Great Prairie AEA (Ottumwa) - http://www.gpaea.k12.ia.us/ 73. Special Education of the Iowa Department of Education - http://www.iowagov/educate/content/view/574/591/ (Back to CATEGORIES) State University Disability Resources and Services 74.  University of Iowa Disability Resources - http://www.uiowa.edu/homepage/hub/disability.html 75.  Iowa State University Disability Resources – http://www.dso.iastate.edu/dr 76.  University of Northern Iowa Office of Disability Services – http://www.uni.edu/disability (Back to CATEGORIES) ONLINE BRAIN INJURY SUPPORTS 77.  The Waiting Room - Coma Support - http://www.waiting.com/comawaiting.html 78.  Brain Injury Information Network - http://tbinet.org 79. The TBI Chatroom and Homepage - http://www.braininjurychat.org or http://www.tbihome.org 80.  The Perspectives Network - http://www.tbi.org 81.  The Brain Injury Ring - http://f.webring.com/t/Brain-Injury-Ring 82.  B Independent - http://www.bindependent.com  (Back to CATEGORIES) IOWA GOVERNMENT 83.  State of Iowa Home Page - http://www.iowa.gov/ 84.   Advisory Council on Brain Injuries – http://www.idph.state.ia.us/bh/brain_injury.asp 85.  Department of Public Health - http://www.idph.state.ia.us 86.  Department of Education - http://www.iowa.gov/educate 87.  Department of Human Services - http://www.dhs.state.ia.us 87b. HCBS Brain Injury Waiver Waiting List   - When you arrive at page scroll to section titled HCBS Funding Slots and click on "Slot and Waiting list information". 88.  Department of Human Rights - http://www.iowa.gov/government/dhr/index.html 89.  Division of Persons with Disabilities - http://www.iowa.gov/government/dhr/pd/index.html 90.  Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services - http://www.ivrs.iowa.gov/ 91.  Iowa Division of Health Facilities – https://dia-hfd.iowa.gov/DIA_HFD/Home.do 92.  Iowa General Assembly - http://www.legis.state.ia.us 93.  Iowa Code - http://www.legis.state.ia.us/IowaLaw.html 94.  Iowa Administrative Code -  http://www.legis.state.ia.us/IAC.html 95.  Iowa State Association of Counties - http://www.iowacounties.org (Back to CATEGORIES) IOWA’S NEIGHBORING BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATIONS 96.  Brain Injury Association of ILLINOIS - http://www.biail.org/ 97.  Brain Injury Association of KANSAS and Greater Kansas City – http://www.biaks.org 98.  Brain Injury Association of MINNESOTA – http://braininjurymn.org 99.  South Dakota Brain Injury Alliance – http://www.braininjurysd.org/ 100.   Brain Injury Associaition of WISCONSIN – http://biaw.org (Back to CATEGORIES) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 101.  The New Freedom Initiative for Americans with Disabilities –   http://www.disabilityinfo.gov 102.  The Americans with Disabilities Act - http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm 103.   CDC's Help Seniors Liver Better, Longer: Prevent Brain Injury - http://www.cdc.gov/braininjuryinseniors/ 104.   U.S. Fall Prevention Program for Seniors - http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/falls/default.htm  105.  Traumatic Brain Injury Collaboration Space / TBICS - http://www.tbitac.nashia.org/tbics/ (Back to CATEGORIES) FINDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 106.   Google Search Engine - http://www.google.com 107.   National Library of Medicine - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Literature/ 108.   National Library of Medicine: Bibliographies on Brain Injury (scroll down the page) – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/archive/20040830/pubs/cbm/tbi.html 109.   HDI Publishers - http://braininjurybooks.com This links page is supported in part by the Iowa Department of Public Health’s resource Brain Injury Resources for the World Wide Web.  This resource was created to assist individuals with locating brain injury information on the World Wide Web (or Internet).  Special focus was given to the location of information that would be relevant to people with brain injury and family members of people living with brain injury.  From time to time the links on this page may become out-of-date.  Please visit Iowa’s Advisory Council on Brain Injuries website for the most current version.  Updated January 23, 2007 (Back to CATEGORIES) home | advocacy | calendar | contact | education | how we can help | how you can help | membership | prevention | what is brain injury  what's new | multicultural resources | newsletters IMPORTANT: The contents of this website, informational packets or handouts, such as text, graphics, or images are for informational purposes only. 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