Our onsite Resource Library contains a variety of texts to help support and meet the needs of survivors and their families. The following is a list of the helpful texts found in the Resource Library.
For more information or help accessing texts, contact Katie Fowler at 816-842-8604 ext. 105 or Jannell Mallein-Skinner at 816-842-8604 ext. 101
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Amazing Lady—There Is Life After Brain Injury!
Alice Brown
Amazing Lady—There Is Life After Brain Injury! is the story of Alice’s difficult and painful rehabilitation as she fights back from weeks of unconsciousness to return home and teach again. Alice finds that life after brain injury is often filled with pain and frustration as she is hired and fired from job after job. Her story is one of faith and courage as she proves to herself that there is indeed life after brain injury!
God Isn’t Finished With Me Yet
Kathy Hughes with Rita Molios
God Isn’t Finished With Me Yet is the story of Kathy Hughes’ long and painful struggle aphasia. While some would have given up, Kathy was driven by the conviction that in spite of what seemed a limited hope for recovery, God had not finished with her, had not cast her aside.
I Am the Central Park Jogger: A Story of Hope and Possibility
Trisha Meili
For the first time since the brutal assault in 1989 – a crime that stunned New Yorkers, the nation and the world – the Central Park Jogger reveals her identity and tells the story you haven’t heard, the journey of a young woman who turned horrifying violence and certain death into extraordinary healing and triumphant life.
Wake Me When It’s Over: A Journey to the Edge and Back
Mary Kay Blakely
This compelling memoir, Mary Kay Blakely, a journalist and mother, recounts the extraordinary personal, psychological and medical events the converged on her life – and triggered a nine-day coma. Her unplanned journey into unconsciousness revealed the thin line between sanity and lunacy, finally yielding essential truths about her life, her work, her spiritual self.
Over My Head: A Doctor’s Account of Head Injury From the Inside Looking Out
Claudia L. Osborn, Ph.D.
Poignant, funny, insightful, Over My Head is a fascinating story of a young doctor’s battle to overcome her brain injury and build a new life. Dr. Osborn chronicles her rehabilitation process from the struggle to re-master basic skills to the heartache of parting with her old identity and the challenge of building a new life.
Where is the Mango Princess?
Cathy Crimmins
Where is the Mango Princess? is an account of how Cathy Crimmins’ life is forever changed after her husband Alan sustains a traumatic brain injury. His recovery is a vast and murky sea of medical mystery and HMO bureaucracy that Crimmins must navigate essentially alone. Crimmins shares a moving tale of personal triumph that questions the very nature of human personality and deftly explores the endless complexities of the brain and the heart.
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BIOGRAPHY
Thumbs Up
Mollie Dickenson
Thumbs up is the account of Jim Brady’s heroic comeback after being critically wounded during John Hinkley’s failed assassination attempt on President Reagan. Jim Brady’s saga tells about the long months of recovery when physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech pathology taught him to compensate for his brain injury. More than anything else, this story determination and inspiration teaches us that humor and faith can prevail against all odds.
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FAMILIES
Living with Head Injury: A Guide for Families
Richard C. Senelick, M.D. and Cathy E. Ryan, M.A. CCC-SLP
Richard Senelick, M.D. and Cathy Ryan, M.A., CCC-SLP, discuss the nature of head injury, how it affects not only its victims, but the entire family, and answer common questions about symptoms, diagnosis and treatment from how the brain works to what successful rehabilitation really means.
Fall Back Up – Surviving Traumatic Brain Injury
A. W. Bailey
Fall Back Up – Surviving Traumatic Brain Injury is the story of a family’s struggle to cope with their teenage son’s head injury. Written in free verse, the book takes the reader through Luke’s initial injury and coma to his miraculous recovery and rehabilitation.
Coming Home: A Discharge Manual for Families of Persons with a Brain Injury
Dana S. DeBoskey, Ph.D., Editor
This practical manual provides on-going advice regarding “what to do if…” Case examples and proven intervention strategies are offered to help deal with common behavioral and emotional issues felt by both the patient and family.
Living with Brain Injury: A Guide for Families, the Second Edition
Richard Senelick, M.D. & Karla Dougherty
Living with Brain Injury: A Guide for Families, the Second Edition was written to help people living with brain-injured survivors — both families and professionals alike — keep up with the newest information available, including comprehensive facts on cutting edge neuroplasticity, experimental rehabilitation research and the process of rehabilitation itself.
When Your Child is Technology Assisted: A home care guide for families
Paul Kahn
This guide was written to help the many parents faced with the difficult but rewarding challenge of caring for their technology-assisted children at home. “Technology-assisted” means using the help of a machine or device to perform some life-sustaining activity such as breathing or eating.
Head Injury and the Family: A Life and Living Perspective
Arthur E. Dell Orto, Ph.D., C.R.C. and Paul W. Power, Sc.D., C.R.C.
This book focuses both on how the family can adjust and survive the trauma related to head injury, as well as become a partner in the treatment, rehabilitation and adaptation process. This book explores many important topics which include the impact of the head injury on the person; the impact of head trauma on the family; family considerations in adjustment; assessment; interventions; family crisis; group counseling; respite care; alcohol abuse; loss and grief; as well as hope and optimism.
A Parent’s Guide to Common and Uncommon School Problems
David A. Gross, M.D. and Irl L. Extein, M.D.
This straightforward book helps concerned parents of school age children cope with every problem from “the dog ate my homework” to “we got a call from the principal today”. David A. Gross, M.D. and Irl L. Extein, M.D. answer questions about hyperactivity, learning disabilities, and other important school age issues.
When Your Child Goes to School after an Injury
Marilyn Lash, M.S.W.
This guide will help families prepare for their child’s entry or return to school after a serious injury. It was written after meeting with many families and teachers.
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SURVIVORS: BACK TO WORK/SCHOOL
Working After Brain Injury: What Can I Do?
Dana S. DeBoskey, Ph.D., Editor
A variety of practical approaches are presented in this manual to help plan and implement an effective back to work strategy. Real life examples are used to illustrate successful techniques.
This text has been designed to serve as a teaching guide for those involved in helping persons with brain injury return to work.
Vocational Rehabilitation for Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury
Paul Wehman and Jeffrey S. Kreutzer
This book describes job placement techniques and vocational rehabilitation for persons who have survived traumatic brain injury. It is a remarkably practical collection of clinical, personal, and research experiences in supported employment, job placement, and vocational service delivery.
Community Integration Following Traumatic Brain Injury
Jeffrey S. Kreutzer & Paul Wehman
Guided by leading experts in the field of TBI rehabilitation, this critical book takes a practical yet empirical, up-to-date look at the long term problems that people with traumatic brain injury face as they strive to rebuild their lives. The expert advice and exhaustive data in the book make it crucial to efforts to improve the long-term quality of life for people with traumatic brain injury.
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TEACHERS
Signs and Strategies for Education Students with Brain Injuries: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Schools
Gary Wolcott, M.Ed., Marilyn Lash, M.S.W., Sue Pearson, M.A.
This book is an excellent resource manual that teachers and school staff can use to help them better understand and plan for the educational needs of children and adolescents with brain injuries. The authors have provided an array of useful and usable guidelines, practical tips and intervention strategies that teachers and other caregivers can immediately implement.
An Educator’s Manual: What Educators Need to Know about Students with Brain Injury
Brain Injury Association, Inc., Edited by Ronald C. Savage, ED.D. and Gary F. Wolcott, M.ED.
The Manual was designed to assist parents, teachers and administrators in helping students face the challenge of brain injury. This manual outlines the information educators need to help students with brain injury.
An Educational Challenge: Meeting the Needs of Students with Brain Injury
Dana S. DeBoskey
This book includes specific educational strategies to facilitate the cognitive, academic and behavioral remediation of students with brain injuries. Case studies augment knowledge in a pragmatic, well organized fashion.
Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Other School Personnel
Mary P. Mira, Bonnie Foster Tucker and Janet Siantz Tyler
This book is about students with traumatic brain injury (TBI), from preschoolers through adolescents. Its focus is particularly on students whose injuries were moderate to severe. The purpose is to provide an introduction to the characteristics and needs of children and adolescents with TBI as they present to schools.
Signs and Strategies for Educating Students with Brain Injuries:A Practical Guide forTeachers and Schools
Gary Wolcott, M.Ed., Marilyn Lash, M.S.W., Sue Pearson, M.A.
Signs and Strategies for Educating Students with Brain Injuries is an excellent resource manual that teachers and other school staff can use to help them better understand and plan for the educational needs of children and adolescents with brain injuries. The authors have provided an array of useful and usable guidelines, practical tips and intervention strategies that teachers and other caregivers can immediately implement.
Traumatic Head Injury In Children: A Guide For Schools
Mary Mira, Ph.D., Janet Tyler, Ph.D, Bonnie Tucker, M.S.Ed.
This booklet is designed to assist those working with the traumatic head injured child who is reentering the school. The booklet provides an overview of the basic facts about head injury; it offers guidelines for the reentry process and points to resources for further information.
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PAIN MANAGEMENT
Pain: Making Life Liveable
Dana S. DeBoskey, Ph.D
This manual was written specifically for persons who are suffering from chronic pain. It offers techniques on how to deal effectively with problems associated with chronic pain and the interaction of family, friends and employers. Twenty-three separate problem areas are addressed, followed by practical, proven techniques for positive change.
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RESEARCH AND THEORY
Confronting Traumatic Brain Injury: Devastation, Hope, and Healing
William AJ. Winslade
William Winslade presents facts about traumatic brain injury, information about its financial and emotional costs to individuals, families, and society, and key ethical and policy issues. He illustrates each aspect with dramatic case studies, including his own childhood brain injury.
Guide to Traumatic Brain Injury Resources
Produced by NIDRR Grantees
This guide was developed to assist researchers, professionals and people with disabilities to locate research and training materials relating to emergency medical and/or community living/working issues or persons surviving Traumatic Brain Injury. All materials included in this guide were developed by projects funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).
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THE BRAIN
The Amazing Brain
Robert Ornstein and Richard F. Thompson
Beginning with the simplest view of brain anatomy, mechanisms, and processes, and making use of the most up-to-date research available, THE AMAZING BRAIN takes the reader on a visual and intellectual exploration of the history, evolution, construction, and chemical and electrical operation of the only object we know of that is able to contemplate, study and describe itself.
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BASIC BRAIN INJURY
Traumatic Head Injury: Cause, Consequence and Challenge
Dennis P. Swiercinsky, Ph.D, Terrie L. Price, Ph. D. and Leif Eric Leaf, Ph.D.
This book is a guide for understanding the causes and consequences of head injury, and the rehabilitation challenge for regaining as much functional independence as possible for adjusting to that which cannot be changed.
Brainlash: Maximize Your Recovery from Mild Brain Injury
Gail L. Denton, Ph.D.
Gail L. Denton, Ph.D., psychotherapist, massage therapist, ski patroller, fiber artist, author, mountaineer, educator, wife, mother and brain injury survivor offers support, information and insight into the daily challenges and triumphs of living with the consequences of mild traumatic brain injury.
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SELF IMPROVEMENT
50 Ways You Can Improve Your Memory
Dennis P. Swiercinsky, Ph.D.
Practical and immediately useful, this book provides all you need to know to have a confident memory. Fifty simple, straight-forward, no-gimmick techniques are outlined that you can implement right away and with amazing effectiveness.
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HUMOR
My Reality Check Bounced: Humor from a Brain Injury Perspective
Edited by John Youngbauer Mandy Goodnight, Jeanne Hetherington
This compilation of stories and cartoons evolved from a series of mid-1990’s workshops given by a volunteer core group of brain injury survivors and family members with the purpose of compiling a book to educate the public that there is life after brain injury. The authors and cartoonists here are brain injury survivors, family members or providers with close ties to brain injury and they speak from experience.
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