Childhood Brain Injury: Best Practices in Return to School Virtual Conference

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Virtual Conference, Childhood Brain Injury: Best Practices in Return to School. This conference was offered free of charge courtesy of our conference sponsors the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Aging and Long-Term Support Administration and the TBI Council of Washington.

The Conference: was held May 21, 2021. 

Learning Objectives
As a result of this activity, the participant will be able to:

• Describe how the school environment presents struggles for students with brain injury by listing at least 3 potential barriers.
• Apply evidence-based strategies when supporting students with brain injury and be able to summarize how these strategies will be used in future work with students with brain injury.
• Associate evidence-based approaches for managing concussion in various situations and settings with improved student outcomes.
• Describe at least 5 key points from current literature about successful return to school programs.

Participants will learn and explore strategies for return to school following concussion in children. The conference will offer an opportunity for participants to network with colleagues and experts.  Click on the title links to access the recordings.  

• May 21, 2021

• 8:30am

  Conference Opens
• 9-9:30am

  Creating a Successful Support Network at School for Students with Brain Injury 
  Melissa McCart, EdD, CBIRT

  Linda Brown, DEd, David Minor, MIPM, Will Hitchcock, PhD, Lee Collyer, MSW
• 9:30-10:00am

  CDC Perspective: Gaps in School Services and Strategies for Improvement

  Julie Haarbauer-Krupa, PhD
• 10:00-10:45am

  Teacher Panel: Perspectives from the Front Line

  
  Sarah Becker, MEd
  Kathy Olmsted, MEd
  Ricky Rodriguez, MEd, ACT
  Jennifer Veliz
  Douglas Gomez, PhD, Facilitator 
• 10:45-11:30am

  Longitudinal Qualitative Study on Return to School: Implications for School Services

  Melissa McCart, EdD
  Douglas Gomez, PhD
• 11:30-12:00pm

  Lunch Break
• 12:00-12:30pm

  Best Practices in Return to School

  
  Susan Davies, EdD
• 12:30-1:30pm

  Return to School Models that Show Promise

  
  Karen McAvoy, PsyD
  Sara Timms, EdS
  Cindy Brunken, M.Ed., M.S., CCC-SLP
• 1:30-1:45pm

  Break
• 1:45-2:45pm

  Return to School Models that Show Promise (continued)

  
  Debbie South, MEd, Ryan Hanna, MEd
  Traci Barney
  Monica Vavilala, MD
• 2:45-3:15pm

  Panel Discussion:  Return to School Models
• 3:15-3:45pm

  Evaluation of RTS models: Brain STEPS and Central Oregon TBI models

  
  BrainSTEPS – Angela Ciccia, PhD and team
  COR-TBI – Deanne Unruh, PhD & Melissa McCart, EdD
• 3:45–4:15pm

  Break Out Room Discussions

We look forward to connecting with you! 
For speaker bios, speaker and sponsorship disclosures, course policies and CEU details, view the full conference brochure. 

This conference is sponsored by the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Aging and Long-Term Support Administration and the TBI Council of Washington.

This course is offered for 0.65 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate Level).