Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) resources
The Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) resources pack has been developed by the Queensland Paediatric Rehabilitation Service (QPRS). The resources pack includes a suite of fact sheets for health professionals as well as an ABI schools pack aimed at helping educators support children with an ABI in the school environment.
ABI resources for health professionals
The fact sheets linked below are designed to help guide health professionals as they provide care and/or support to children and families living with an ABI.
- ABI rehabilitation – Queensland Paediatric Rehabilitation Service (QPRS)
- ABI rehabilitation – Themes
- ABI rehabilitation – Memory
- ABI rehabilitation – Insight and self-awareness
- ABI rehabilitation – Emotional regulation
- ABI rehabilitation – Embedding routines into practice
- ABI rehabilitation – Goal setting and collaborative treatment planning
- ABI rehabilitation – During the pre-school years (0-5 years)
- ABI rehabilitation – During the teenage years (13-18 years)
- ABI rehabilitation – Transition from hospital to home
ABI schools pack
The ABI schools pack has been created by medical and allied health professionals working with children who have a brain injury. It is designed to inform educators about the impact an ABI can have on a student in the school environment.
Please note: This package is not a substitute for individual assessment and treatment, nor should it replace the development of an Individual Education Plan, however the information contained in the “how to help” sections may assist in the developed of support strategies included in the Education Plan.
- About the acquired brain injury schools pack
- Acquired brain injury and school
- Behavioural changes in students with an ABI
- Changes in mood and emotion after an ABI
- Concentrating in class with an ABI
- Executive function with an ABI
- Family dynamics and students with an ABI
- Fatigue in school students with an ABI
- Friendships and students with an ABI
- Headaches in school students with an ABI
- Hemiplegia in school students with an ABI
- Learning with an ABI
- Meal times and students with an ABI
- Medical considerations for students with an ABI
- Motor skill in students with an ABI
- Muscle tone in school students with an ABI
- Orthoses for students with an ABI
- Planning and organisation with an ABI
- Processing information with an ABI
- Returning to school after an ABI
- Sensory changes in school students with an ABI
- Social skills in students with an ABI
- Spoken communication with an ABI
- Staying safe at school after an ABI
- Students returning to sport after an ABI
- The classroom and students with an ABI
- Toileting and students with an ABI
- Walking aids for students with an ABI
- Word finding with an ABI
- Written communication with an ABI
Contact details
Queensland Paediatric Rehabilitation Service
Queensland Children’s Hospital
Level 6, 501 Stanley Street, South Brisbane 4101
t: 07 3068 2950
t: 07 3068 1111 (general enquiries)
f: 07 3068 3909
e: qprs@health.qld.gov.au
