TBI Voices

Learning After Severe Brain Injury: Steven Part Eleven   I took some time with Steven to focus on the process of learning after severe brain injury to fix a car and the process of actually fixing a car.  The goal was to learn something about what it’s like learning after severe..
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Advocate for Severe Brain Injury: Steven Part Twelve Bill Wright was the difference maker in Steven’s life.  Bill is the director at the Technology Center, where Steven went to school for two years. Bill became an advocate for severe brain injury. Bill, what’s the Technology Center? We’re a training school, in Tennessee. ..
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Social Security for Severely Brain Injury Survivors: Steven Part Thirteen As discussed previously in Part Eight, only incompetency or neglect could have resulted in someone so clearly eligible, being denied Social Security Disability Income, (SSDI) ,social security for severely brain injury survivors .  Bill’s intervention for Steven also made the difference..
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Assessment of Severe Brain Injury Deficits: Steven Part Fourteen In part fourteen we discussed the problems Steven had while he never really had an assessment of severe brain injury deficits. You said you  finally had a neuropsychological evaluation done for the assessment of severe brain injury deficits, that you paid for out..
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Environment Factors after a Severe Brain Injury: Steven Part Fifteen You were also talking about the environment in which the neuropsychological testing is given.  Now earlier today you sat in a lecture I gave and started to have real difficulty with the fluorescent lights which is one of the environment factors after..
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Shopping After Severe Brain Injury: Steven Part Sixteen Shopping after severe brain injury can become a combat zone.  Steven offered some insight into his problems with shopping after severe brain injury:   What else bothers you about grocery shopping after severe brain injury? Just the people.  Trying to keep up with..
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Anxiety After Severe Brain Injury: Steven Part Seventeen Steven and I talked about the medications he is on and if he takes anything for anxiety after severe brain injury.  He states that he is only on something for attention-deficit. Are you currently on medication? The only thing is, Adderall for attention deficit...
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Headaches, Pain and Neurological Problems After Severe Brain Injury: Steven Part Eighteen In part eighteen Steven and I talked about his headaches, pain and neurological problems after severe brain injury. Talk to me about your headaches, pain and neurological problems after severe brain injury. . It’s pretty much a constant, I mean, even..
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Accommodating Severe Brain Injury: Steven Part Nineteen In part nineteen I ask Steven if he has any thoughts on how the schools and the workplace could be more accommodating severe brain injury survivors.  Here are his thoughts: You have been through the difficult effort to learn a trade in an area that..
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Severe Brain Injured: Steven Concludes – Part Twenty We ended with Steven and Bill as we do all of our interviews with the severe brain injured. What parting words do you have to make the world a better place for those severe brain injured.  First, from Steven our severe brain injured: I..
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