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Useful Publications:

1. Head Injury A Practical Guide ó Author: Trevor Powell

   This book will enable professionals, families and carers to understand and cope with the psychological, social, behavioural and emotional problems caused by head injury.

2. Living with Brain Injury ó Author: Philip L. Fairclough

   An auto-biography about the hurdles that Philip encountered and subsequently overcame while undergoing extensive rehabilitation after falling 15 feet from a ladder on to a concrete patio. He also highlights the difficulties of readapting to family life, and finally of his new vocation as a writer.

3. The Brain Injury Workbook ó & Author: Trevor Powell & Kit Malia

   Exercises for cognitive rehabilitation.

   This photocopiable workbook has been produced for professionals, carers and those with a brain injury to provide help with identifying issues post-brain injury and developing compensatory strategies.

   The worksheets are stimulating and thought provoking, but written in a language suitable for all. These are for group situations or for working one-to-one.

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