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Information in Spanish (Información en español)Heads Up: Concussion in High School Sports Information from the CDC about concussions to coaches, parents, and athletes involved in youth sports. The Heads Up initiative provides important information on preventing, recognizing, and responding to a concussion. en Español Understanding TBI Part 1: What happens to the brain during injury and in the early stages of recovery from TBI? en Español Understanding TBI Part 4: The impact of a recent TBI on family members and what they can do to help with recovery en Español National Hispanic Medical Association Expanding access to quality health care, increasing opportunities in medical education, cultural competence, and research for Latinos Acute Brain Acute Brain Injury - A Guide for Family and Friends (Ofrezca aquí en Espanol) Virtual Hospital® is a digital health sciences library created in 1992 at the University of Iowa to help meet the information needs of health care providers and patients. The goal of the Virtual Hospital digital library is to make the Internet a useful medical reference and health promotion tool for health care providers and patients. The Virtual Hospital digital library contains thousands of textbooks and booklets for health care providers and patients. Facts about Traumatic Brain Injury This fact sheet in PDF format was developed by CDC in collaboration with ten national organizations. It contains up-to-date information about the incidence, causes, risk factors, and cost associated with TBI in the United States. Facts about Traumatic Brain Injury (Spanish) Datos sobre lesiones traumáticas del cerebro Heads Up: Concussion in High School Sports This kit contains practical, easy-to-use information including a video and DVD featuring a young athlete disabled by concussion, a guide, wallet card and clip board sticker for coaches, posters, fact sheets for parents and athletes in English and Spanish, and a CD-ROM with downloadable kit materials and additional concussion-related resources. New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) The NOAH volunteer editors do not write this information. Instead, librarians and health professionals in New York and beyond find, select, and organize full-text consumer health information that is current, relevant, accurate and unbiased. NOAH provides quality consumer health information in English and Spanish. TBI Incidence (Ofrezca aquí en Español) A comparison of Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States from Brain Injury Association of America. In PDF. Through the Looking Glass (TLG) TLG is a nationally recognized center that has pioneered research, training, and services for families in which a child, parent or grandparent has a disability or medical issue. en Español Traumatic Brain Injury Tool Kit (Information for Patients) Facts About Concussion and Brain Injury and Where to Get Help in English and Spanish / Español (Información Acerca de la Lesión Cerebral Leve) Heads Up: Preventing Brain Injuries in English and Spanish. Understanding Brain Injury: Guide for Employers (Ofrezca aquí en Español) Returning to work is a goal that drives most survivors of brain injury through the long and difficult rehabilitation process. Yet when this goal is finally achieved, there is often difficulty adjusting to expectations of the workplace.
Employers are required by the Americans with Disabilities Act to provide reasonable accommodations to help an employee with a disability achieve vocational success. This is ave prepared a 28-page booklet to assist employers in this process: Understanding Brain Injury: Guide for Family (Ofrezca aquí en Español)
Mayo Clinic has prepared a 34-page booklet in PDF to help families learn more about TBI and adjust to these new conditions. This booklet contains information on the following topics:
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