Traumatic Brain Injury: The 4 Concepts That Are Always All Around Us
By John Hatten, Rehabilitation Counselor, TBI Survivor I find that I learn as much from putting together these presentations as I hope you do from reading them. I’m also going to put a TBI spin on each to explain how these ideas can help us Survivors come to grips with our situation. The four words […]
Continue readingTraumatic Brain Injury: How It Hits Survivors the Hardest…in our weakest spots
By John Hatten, Rehabilitation Counselor, TBI SurvivorFirst things first: I should explain that I know, the hard way, about this subject. A long time ago (1973!), I had a Traumatic Brain Injury in a construction accident. Very few people survived such an injury then: I walked in uncharted territory. So unlike so many of the […]
Continue readingTBI Helper Resources
World Wide Web Resources By John Hatten, Rehabilitation Counselor, TBI Survivor Hi again! For this blog I’m going to review some other TBI “helpers”: Brain Train® goes for $129.00 for the “Basic Cognitive Skills” edition: Volume 1, or $249.00 for Volume 3 (Volume 1 and 38 new programs); Happy-neuron.com is priced from $29.95 (3 month) […]
Continue readingTBI: Recognizing Cognitive Deficits
By John Hatten, Rehabilitation Counselor, TBI Survivor It seems, at first glance, that recognizing our deficits, or problem areas, would seem to be the easiest thing to do: after all, we know ourselves better than anyone, so it must be simple to see where we aren’t quite the same anymore. In fact, it’s one […]
Continue readingAfter TBI Injury: Recognizing and Internalizing Deficits
By John Hatten, TBI Coach & Counselor, Survivor of TBI I’d like to change this blog, but just a bit. I’m going from the TBI 101 to individually named posts, so it’ll be easier to get what will be discussed. I hope you like it. Like today, I’m going to be discussing how we recognize […]
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