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| AbilityHub Assistive Technology for people with a disability who find operating a computer difficult, maybe even impossible. This website will direct you to adaptive equipment and alternative methods available for accessing computers. |
| Ask NOAH About Spinal Cord and Head Injuries NOAH seeks to provide high quality full-text health information for consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased. NOAH currently supports English and Spanish. |
| American Medical Identifications American Medical Identifications serves the medical community and the public at large by offering quality medical identification products which - in a medical emergency - allow medics or other medical personnel to administer aid in a more prompt and efficacious manner than might otherwise be possible. |
| brain injury.com A medical, legal, and informational resource for persons dealing with traumatic brain injury. |
| Brain Injury Association of America Promotes awareness, understanding and prevention of brain injury through education, advocacy, research grants and community support services that lead toward reduced incidence and improved outcomes of children and adults with brain injuries. |
| Brain Trauma Foundation The Brain Trauma Foundation was founded to improve the outcome of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients by developing best practice guidelines, conducting clinical research and educating medical personnel. |
| Free Meds and Solutions Our focus at Free Meds and Solutions is to provide you and your loved ones with programs that will save or eliminate prescription medicine costs, as well as a number of associated assistance programs. |
| Brain
Injury Resource Center This site is maintained by: Brain Injury Resource Center -- a non-profit clearinghouse founded and operated by head injury activists since 1985. The purpose of this site is to share with you lessons we learned long ago. Our intention is help you avoid much of the grief and loss of brain injury, and perhaps to inspire you to get involved. |
| International Brain Injury Association Founded in 1993, the International Brain Injury Association is dedicated to providing international leadership, advancing opportunities and successes for persons with brain injury. |
| KidNeeds.com A worldwide resource that provides children with special needs, families and other caregivers with access to comprehensive information. |
| Lash and Associates Publishing/Training We are committed to helping families, survivors, clinicians, teachers, advocates and counselors recognize and respond to the special needs of children, adolescents and young adults with brain injuries, and other disabilities. |
| Model Spinal Cord Injury Systems The Model Spinal Cord Injury Systems (MSCIS) Gateway provides an entrance to the various spinal cord research systems funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). |
| National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) conducts and supports research on brain and nervous system disorders. Created by the U.S. Congress in 1950, NINDS is one of the more than two dozen research institutes and centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH, located in Bethesda, Maryland, is an agency of the Public Health Service within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NINDS has occupied a central position in the world of neuroscience for 50 years. |
| National Spinal Cord Injury Association Working with local and national officials and agencies to develop better programs and services and act as community advocates for improved access, housing, transportation, employment, and leisure time activities for disabled people. Peer support and other services are also provided. |
| Perspectives Network Primary focus is positive communication between persons with brain injury, family members/ caregivers/friends of persons with brain injury, those many professionals who treat persons with brain injury and community members in order to create positive changes and enhance public awareness and knowledge of acquired/traumatic brain injury. |
| Spinalcord Injury Information Network The Spinalcord Injury Information Network is funded through grants to the UAB Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Secondary Conditions of Spinal Cord Injury and UAB Model SCI Care System. |
| TBI Chat Room The TBIChat server is to provide chat rooms that are safe and compassionate for people living with Brain Injury: survivors, caregivers, families and friends. |
| Tramatic
Brain Injury Model Systems National Data &
Statistical Center The Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems National Data and Statistical Cent(TBINDSC) located at Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado, is a central resource for researchers and data collectors within the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS) program. The primary purpose of the TBINDSC is to advance medical rehabilitation by increasing the rigor and efficiency of scientific efforts to longitudinally assess the experience of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). The TBINDSC provides technical assistance, training, and methodological consultation to 16 TBIMS centers as they collect and analyze longitudinal data from people with TBI in their communities, and as they conduct research toward evidence-based TBI rehabilitation interventions. |
| Traumatic Brain Injury Survival Guide Online book by a clinical neuropsychologist. Explains TBI and its treatments in clear, easy-to-understand language. |
| UAB Traumatic Brain Injury Model System Center The UAB Traumatic Brain Injury Care System (TBICS) is one of 17 national TBI Model Systems Centers funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). |
| YouthHood This site is a place for you, your friends, and other teens. It's a welcoming community for all youth and a place where all youth belong. Here you can start thinking about what you want to do with the rest of your life. This Web site was built to help you plan for the future. |
DISCLAIMER: Within this site, there are links to web sites around the world that contain educational and research information. These "outside sites" are not managed by the Alabama Head Injury Foundation. AHIF does not endorse nor recommend the information or products posted on these sites, and receives no payment or other consideration for providing these links.