"The management and rehabilitation of acquired brain injury in Southern Africa is not a priority in the greater scheme of health care and education." Dr Alision Madden, a neuropsychologist who has developed a successful rehabilitation service in rural South Africa discusses rehabilitation for children after brain injury. Dr Madden is a founding board member of IPBIS.
Good Practice Recommendations - result from an interactive workshop organised by IPBIS at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Childhood Disability in Rome, Italy, in June 2011.
Update
These guidelines were discussed at the IPBIS pre-congress workshop in Edinburgh with some interesting observations. Please feel free to leave a comment/suggestion....
IPBIS Board Members Alison Madden and Audrey McKinlay have joined forces with Professor Ali Gorji of the Shefa Neuroscience Centre in Iran to convene the 1st International NeuroRehabilitation Congress in Iran in September this year.
Several IPBIS members will be traveling to Melbourne next week to attend the 7th World Congress on Neurorehabilitation, being held jointly by the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation (WFNR) and the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment (ASSBI). One of the parallel session themes for this Congress will be paediatric neurorehabilitation, a welcome sign that paediatric issues are being better recognised around the world. www.dcconferences.com.au/wcnr2012/
This 2 hour Invited Symposia Concurrent Session at the 9th World Congress of the International Brain Injury Association in Edinburgh, Scotland, will be chaired by IPBIS Board Members Carol Hawley (UK) and Ronald Savage (USA), and is likely to elicit some controversial perspectives. To register for the Congress go to the IBIA website www.internationalbrain.org/
IPBIS Board Members Carol Hawley (UK) and Ronald Savage (USA) will chair a pre-congress workshop at the 9th World Congress of the International Brain Injury Association in Edinburgh, Scotland. Go to the IBIA website to register for this 4 hour workshop www.internationalbrain.org/
