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Stewart Centres From the map opposite, click on one of the three Stewart Centre locations to view their contact details.
Downloads MSCT Brochure     Brain Injury Association of New Zealand The Brain Injury Association provides information, advocacy and support to people with brain injury and their families/whanau.

Stroke Foundation of New Zealand

www.stroke.org.nz

Freephone: 0800 STROKE (0800 78 76 53)

Phone: (04) 472 8099 Fax: (04) 472 7019

Email: strokenz@stroke.org.nz

Weka

www. weka.net.nz

WEKA (What Everybody Keeps Asking) is a free website which provides access to generic disability information. There are 94 brain injury topics including:

• Students with brain injury

• Coping with brain injury - A guide for family and friends

• Special care for those with memory loss

• Rehabilitation after brain injury

• Children with acquired brain injury

• Life after brain injury: Who am I?

• Working after brain injury: What can I do?

This service can also be accessed by free phone 0800 69 3342 or by email weka@enable.co.nz

New Zealand Government Departments

• Accident Compensation Commission - for information on claims, avoiding accidents, etc.

• Ministry of Health - Manatū Hauora - Official website of the Ministry of Health. Contains health news and issues such as eligibility to health care services, smoke-free programmes, national screening programmes etc.

• Support Links - Supportlinks is contracted by the Ministry of Health as the needs assessment and service coordination provider for the Manawatu/Horowhenua/Tararua areas.
  
  Supportlinks has three main functions:
  
  1. Needs Assessment: identifying the help you need,
  2. Service Coordination: finding services that provide the help you need,
  3. Overseeing and managing Disability Support Services (DSS) money spent in the local area.

• Work and Income New Zealand - WINZ

Brain Injury Association of Ontario

www.obia.on.ca

This website is a wealth of information for those with acquired brain injury, and their families.

Brain Injury Association of America

www.biausa.org

Providing information about brain injury prevention, research, education and advocacy

Brain Injury Association of New South Wales

www.biansw.org.au

This website has several free publications available for download.  The articles are presented in PDF format which will require Adobe Reader. If you do not have  Adobe Reader installed on your computer, it can be downloaded free by clicking the link below.

Brain Injury Resource Foundation

www.birf.info

An informative site with an online library of over 400 TBI related articles written by leading health care professionals.

Brainline

www.brainline.org

Headway

www.headway.org.uk - Headway National Head Injuries Association provides information, support and services to people with brain injury and their families.

Street Address: 7 King Edward Court, Nottingham NG1 1EW, United Kingdom.

Phone: 01602 240800\

Carers

www.carers.net.nz

Carers website provides a variety of health and disability information for care givers. It includes a chat room to discuss issues online, a message board and an online classified advertising service.

Traumatic Brain Injury Survival Guide

www.tbiguide.com

Traumatic Brain Injury Survival Guide by clinical neuro-psychologist, Dr. Glen Johnson, is a free online survival guide for the families and survivors of traumatic brain injury

Brain Map

www.neuroskills.com

A helpful Brain Map by Robert P. Lehr Jr., Ph.D. explaining the brain functions of various areas of the brain, and observed problems relating to brain injury to those different areas.

Virtual Hospital

www.vh.org

The Virtual Hospital is a digital library of health information including helpful articles and booklets on brain injury  

Including: Acute Brain Injury - A guide for Family and Friends

Neuroscience for Kids

Click here - This website has been created for kids who want to know more about the nervous system. Resources include experiments, lesson plans, demonstrations, games and much more.

Recommended Reading

• Brain Injury and the Family - A Life and Living Perspective, Dell Orto, A and Power, P, CRC Press, New York, 2000 (Second Edition).

[Information for families to help them comprehend, adjust , accept and survive the multi-dimensional trauma related to brain injury, and become an active partner in the treatment and adaptation process.]

• Coping with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury - A Guide to Living with the Challenges Associated with Concussion/Brain Injury, Roberts Stoler, D (Ed.D) and Albers Hill, B, Avery (a member of Penguin Putnam Inc), 1998

[A valuable resource to help those who have sustained concussion or mild traumatic brain injury overcome the frustrating symptoms and regain a life of health and vitality.]

• The Everest Within, Jenny Phillips, Clarity Publishing, Auckland, 2000.

[A compilation of experiences from New Zealanders who are living with the effects of brain injury (including an article written by one of our clients). Available for $16.50 from Brain Injury Association - Email: bianz@xtra.co.nz for details.]

• Head Injury - A Practical Guide, Trevor Powell, , Winslow Press, London, 2003.

[This vital book will enable professionals, families and carers to understand and cope with the psychological, social, behavioural and emotional problems created by head injury. Available from Headway in the UK.]

• Head Injury - Information and Answers to Commonly Asked Questions, Strum,C (MD), Forget, T (MD), Strum, J (RN), Quality Medical Publishing Inc, Missouri, 1998.

[A family's guide to coping - leading head injury specialists tell you what you need to know in an emergency]

• Head Injury: The Facts, Gronwall D, Wrightson P & Waddell P,  Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990.

[This is a book authored by New Zealanders who have had many years of experience working with head-injured people, in both research and rehabilitation roles.]

• Life After Stroke - A Guide for People with a Stroke and their Families, Stroke Foundation of New Zealand Inc, 1998

[Available through the Stroke Foundation of New Zealand, P O Box 12482, Wellington]

• Living with Brain Injury - A Guide for Families, Second Edition, SDenelick, R (MD), Dougherty, K, HealthSouth Press, Alabama, 2001.

[Written by a neurologist who specialises in rehabilitation and brain injury, this book provides comprehensive information on the process of rehabilitation.]

• Living with Head Injury, Senelick R & Ryan C, Bantam Premium Books, Washington, 1991.

• Over My Head - A Doctor's Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out, Osborn, C, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City, 2000.

[A moving account of a medical doctor's journey through the rehabilitation process following a severe head injury.]

• Traumatic Brain Injury - Rehabilitation for Everyday Adaptive Living, Ponsford, J with Sloan, S and Snow, P, Psychology Press (A member of the Taylor & Francis Group), Melbourne, 1999.

[Based on scientific evidence and extensive clinical experience, this book provides comprehensive and practical guidelines for the assessment and management of a wide range of problems associated with traumatic brain injury.]