Posts Tagged ‘brain injury advocacy’
By jasonmaddox On March 2nd, 2017
The Neurologic Rehabilitation Institute at Brookhaven Hospital joins the Brain Injury Association of America in announcing March as Brain Injury Awareness Month with Brain Injury Awareness Day on March 22nd. Over 12 million individuals are living with brain injury. This can cause a lifetime of disability which affects the person as well as their loved…
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By jasonmaddox On December 5th, 2014
Patrick Donohue’s life took a new course upon the brain injury of his young daughter. He advocated for her and other children with brain injuries and eventually founded a school where his daughter could receive an education because there were no schools at the time that could meet her needs. I met Patrick Donohue several…
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By jasonmaddox On April 17th, 2014
Geoffrey Lauer, the Executive Director of the Iowa Brain Injury Alliance and a long-time advocate for people living with a brain injury, wrote an op ed in the Cedar Rapid Gazette of April 17, 2014 which spoke to the need to increase funding for community-based programs to prevent the disabilities caused by brain injury which…
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