Personal Injury Law

Brain Injury Primer Online Education Course

By Bruce Stern

The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey and Rutgers Continuous Education have joined together to develop a free online course which provides information about working with students with brain injury. The course provides New Jersey educators with 10 professional development hours (Provider #2782) and 1 Rutgers University CEU.

The Each year in the United State approximately 475,000 traumatic brain injuries occur among children ages 0 to 14 years, and brain injury remains the leading cause of death and disability in children and adolescents. The causes of brain injury are many, but the consequences are similar. Causes can include, but are not limited to: concussions, motor vehicle crashes, blast injuries, falls, assaults, strokes, infections to the brain, aneurysms, brain tumors, loss of oxygen to the brain.

The course will serve to increase awareness and understanding of the causes and types of brain injury; increase awareness and understanding of students with brain injuries; assist educators in understanding the unique characteristics of students with brain injury; and assist educators in how to assess and teach students with brain injury.

This course, created by the Children & Adolescents Committee of the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey, is intended for general and special education teachers, school psychologists, educational consultants, social workers, guidance counselors, principals, speech and language pathologists and other professionals who work with students with brain injuries. The Children & Adolescents Committee is a long standing committee of the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey dedicated to improving supports and services for children and adolescents affected by brain injury.

To register for the course, visit the Rutgers Continuous Education website and search for the keywords Brain Injury Primer. Choose BrainInjury Primer and follow the instructions for registration. If you have questions, or for additional information, please contact the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey at 732-745-0200 or info@bianj.org.

Full post as published by Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog on January 25, 2011 (boomark / email).