Factsheets

The Child Brain Injury Trust has produced a number of factsheets about acquired brain injury and you can access these by clicking the link below. The factsheets cover a wealth of topics incuding:

About the Child Brain Injury Trust
Acquired brain injury in children
After it happens
Leaving hospital - What should happen?
Referrals and second opinions
Difficulties with sight
Child and Family Support
Information for brothers and sisters
Support for brothers and sisters - Information for parents
Aids and equipment
Seizures
Fatigue
Thinking, feeling and behaviour
Changes in behaviour
Behaviour - Practical strategies
Feelings
Thinking and learning
Bullying
Education
Social Services in Northern Ireland
Social Services in Scotland
Legal support
Financial support
Mobility
Alterations to your home
Moving into adulthood
Hormones and Traumatic Brain Injury

Research

Scotland's Invisible Children- Acquired brain injury revealed (40 page A4 book giving a family perspective)
High and Dry - Living with an acquired brain injury in Northern Ireland



Can you Hear Me? - North East


Brain injury in children and adolescents - Judith A Middleton

Guides for parents

Swimming through Treacle - A family's guide to services for children with an acquired brain injury in Wales
Welsh version or English version

“I’m not a head injury on legs”

Children and young people talk about living with an acquired brain injury

CORE – INFO: Head and spinal injuries in
children

This leaflet summarises what is currently known about the clinical presentation
of inflicted head and spinal injuries in children and will be of particular interest
to A&E staff, paediatricians, general practitioners, health visitors, child
protection conference chairs, safeguarding leads, children’s services team
managers, independent reviewing officers, local authority designated officers,
children’s social workers, police and legal practitioners.

More information