Spanish Language Brain Injury Resources

Children's Hospital, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
Click on Patient and Family Education materials, then on brain injury (Spanish) for a Bilingual Patient/Family Education Sheet with easy-to-read, basic information.

For other patient education in Spanish

NASHIA

Brain Injury and Emergency Medical Services Fact Sheet
Signs for returning to ER for children and adults
Common Symptoms of Brain Trauma

TBI Overview Fact Sheet
What is it? How many are effected? Causes, Consequences,
Cognitive, Psychosocial, Emotional and Behavioral disabilities
Societal Costs
Government Role

Children and Youth - Effects on Children and Youth
Medical Definition
IDEA
Brain Trauma in Children and Adolescents
Causes in Children and Youth
Consequences for Children and Youth (physical and behavioral changes)
Changes that affect academic performance
Educational Supports

TBI and Medcaid Fact Sheet
What is Brain Trauma?
What are the Consequences?
Challenges for medical Services
Needed services
How are services provided? (Waivers)

TBI and Vocational Rehabilitation
What is Brain Trauma?
Brain Trauma and Work
Supports
Characteristics for Success in the workplace
Ways that vocational rehabilitation counselors can help

NICHCY

National Dissemination Center for children with Disabilities
Traumatic Brain Injury (8 page document, can be downloaded in pdf file) includes:
Case Study
What is TBI
How often does it occur…
What are the Signs…
And what about Schools...
Advice for Parents
Advice for Teachers
Resources
Organizations
Other Information about Children with Disabilities in Spanish including a guide for parents

BIAUSA

Spanish Language Family Helpline 1-800-444-6443
for Callers Interested in More Information on Brain Injuries

Internet Resources for BIAUSA
Extensive information including statistics, recovery manuals, and more

1. Rehabilitation
Path To Recovery Manual (8 parts)
Parte 1 - Paths to Comfort: Pain Management
Parte 2 - Paths to Healing: Post-traumatic symptoms
Parte 3 - Guide to Recognition: Cognition, Memory, and Brain Injury
Parte 4 - Navigating the Curves: Behavioral Changes
Parte 5 - Crossing the Bridge of Communication: Speech, Language, and Brain Injury
Parte 6 - Trazar the Path: Pharmacuetical Therapy
Parte 7 - Getting Relieve: Managing Espasticidad
Parte 8 - Turning toward Understanding: Concusion and Brain Injury
A Guide for selecting and monitoring brain trauma rehabilitation services -detailed guide, 12 pages.

2. Fact Sheets - Brain Trauma, Definitions, Societal Costs, Causes, Consequences
Articles - Nuero-psychology and Schools, Planning School Transitions, Selecting an attorney, Returning to work, Personality changes, Shaken Baby Syndrome, Substance Abuse

3. Who are we - History of the Brain Injury Association, a message from a survivor

4. Other Materials - Posters, Bookmark

Other Resources

Medline Plus, U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health

Traumatic Brain Injury - TPN Online (The Perspectives Network)

Migrant Health Education Materials

Spanish Injury Materials - a list of injury materials in Spanish provided by the Colorado Injury Control Research Center
This resource addresses agricultural workers, motor vehicle safety, child passenger safety, domestic violence, head and spinal cord injury, poison prevention, and more.

National Center for Farmworker Health

Patient Education Materials English and Spanish from NCFH

Center for Disease Control - A-Z list of information in Spanish