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Analysis of Assets for Virtual Reality Applications in Neuropsychology

VR technology is not just fun and games. It also offers new ways to help people with TBI or PTSD.

Making the Written Word Easier for Readers with Print Disabilities

Find solutions to help your child who may have trouble reading print.

New Electronics: Turn Them On for Learning

Learn how to integrate the use of new technologies with instruction and studying for kids with TBI or other disabilities.

Using Telehealth to Treat Combat-Related Traumatic Brain Injury

Learn how SLPs are using technological advancements to help in the recovery and rehabilitation of wounded soldiers.

Fact Sheet on Computer Access

Learn what can help from computer hardware and software that can speak for non-verbal people to programs to assist those with learning disabilities to more easily perform cognitive activities.

Fact Sheet on Communicators

Communicators are portable electronic devices intended to provide people who have limited or no ability to speak with the ability to take participate in direct, face-to-face, real-time conversation.

Neurotechnology for Brain Injury Fact Sheet

An introduction to brain injury and neurotechnology including an overview of the many clinical applications.

Fact Sheet on Emergency Alert Systems

What would you do if you fell and couldn't call for help? Learn how to be prepared.

Using External Aids to Compensate for Memory and Organizational Problems Post-TBI

Learning how to compensate for cognitive impairments after a TBI is often more effective than trying to "fix" them.

Let Your Fingers Do the Healing

A new military telehealth application — mCare — is poised to help wounded active duty, Reserve, and Guard get the daily help they need to recover.

Psychiatric and Neurologic Aspects of War: An Overview and Perspective

More research is needed to understand the psychiatric and neurologic consequences of combat.

What Are Telecommunications Relay Services?

What Is Telecommunications Relay Services?

TRS enables telephone conversations between people with and without hearing or speech disabilities.

How an App Gave My Daughter a Voice

Kara was growing up and thinking about the future. She would tell us, "I want my own life. I want my own house when I grow up." So I began going to conferences that focused on people with disabilities and became intrigued with technology. As Kara grew into young adulthood, technology became the key that would open the door to her independent life.

A SWOT Analysis of the Field of Virtual Reality Rehabilitation and Therapy

It's no game. Virtual Reality technology is also a brain injury rehabilitation tool.

Tips for Teaching LD Children About Online Safety

Assume that anything posted on the web is there forever.

What's in Your TBI Toolkit?

Brain injuries can change one's ability to organize and plan, get started on tasks or activities, and remember dates, times, or how to do things. There are many tools that can be used to compensate for these changes. What's in your TBI Toolbox?

Online Safety for Children with LD

All children are at risk for being bullied or harassed, but for those with disabilities, bullying is more prevalent.

Out of Sync: The Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury and the Battle to Recovery

"The blast was deafening and created a concussion that sucked the oxygen from the air ..."

Accessibility & Brain Injury: What You Need to Know

People with brain injury can have problems with accessibility. They can run into countless obstacles — from websites that don’t take into account someone with vision problems or memory problems to buildings without wheelchair access. Here's what you need to know.

Using Biomarkers to Discover Pathways to Healing for Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury

Approaches that bridge the basic neuroscience of neural-cognitive functioning with the practical realities of clinical rehabilitation are valuable for intervention development, potentially opening the way for therapies that target biological systems and synergistically augment the specific effects of training.

Dr. James Kelly: Advanced Neuroimaging at the Marcus Institute for Brain Health

The Marcus Insitute for Brain Health in Colorado and the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) have many advanced imaging options that can be used to research and diagnosis brain injury.

Computer Access and Adaptations

Adaptive technologies can make all the difference for people with TBI. Learn more about what is available.

4 Essential Steps to Getting the Most Out of Support Tools

The Center on Brain Injury Research & Training offers the following suggestions for how to teach, practice, and review selected support tools.

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET)

Virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) is a form of exposure therapy that uses technology.

Read more about Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy (VRET)

Brain Injury and COVID-19: Tips for Successful Navigation

Graphic representation of the Earth styled to look like a coronavirus virion

The introduction of COVID-19 to the human population around December 2019 has resulted in a pandemic that continues to affect the entire world. While the research to date has focused on potential neurological impairment to COVID-19 patients, little attention has been placed on the effects of the fallout caused by COVID-19 on individuals who are living with brain injury. Specifically, the pandemic has resulted in job loss, social isolation, interruptions to routine, and a need to adjust previously successful compensatory strategies, all highlighting some of these unique challenges. The general population has experienced the same issues. However, individuals with brain injury were already experiencing these prior to the pandemic.