Description

Are you caring for a child with a traumatic brain injury? Are you unsure of what physical, behavioral, and cognitive challenges you may see as a result of the injury? What services are available for my child? How can I best support and advocate for them?

In this webinar, we’ll explore together how to:

• • Understand what happens when a brain is injured.
  • Understand the changes you may see after an injury.
  • Navigation of and what to expect during the rehabilitation process.
  • The process of returning to home, school, and community and the associated challenges, and strategies to implement along the way.

 

About the Trainer:

Janice Osborne Dowdy, MS/CCC-SLP, CBIS, is a speech-language pathologist at NeuroRestorative in Ashland, Kentucky. Janice is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist, through the Academy of Certified Brain Injury Specialists, part of the Brain Injury Association of America. She is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University and East Tennessee State University.

Janice has been a practicing SLP for 24 years. She has worked in acute care, long term acute care, skilled nursing, post acute rehabilitation, and acute rehabilitation in inpatient, outpatient, and day treatment programs both as a staff therapist, and in various management roles. Janice also worked as Clinical Specialist for Vital Stim Therapy, traveling the USA providing education and consulting services in the management and treatment of dysphagia utilizing the modality of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES). Janice has presented a variety of in-person and virtual presentations on topics within the field of rehabilitation.

 

Please note: Although this LIVE webinar is designed to be an informative, educational, and helpful resource for kinship families caring for relative or fictive kin children, anyone is welcome to attend including foster parents, professionals, students, or community members.

It is our hope that by participating in this LIVE webinar, attendees will receive educational and helpful information. However, it is important to note that this webinar is not approved for foster parent training credit or CEU’s as attendance is not monitored during the webinar event.