Brain Injury Webinar: Concussion Support and Management in NC Public Schools is proudly presented to you by Brain Injury Association of North Carolina's Online Learning Center. Thank you. We hope that you enjoy your course.
Live Webinar Date: 4/21/20 As a follow up to March's webinar, we will be discussing what it looks like to return to school after a concussion. We will investigate NC education policy to identify and respond to students who sustain a concussion to prevent reoccurrence (and more serious recovery complications). The webinar will highlight the efforts of the Child & Youth Committee of the Brain Injury Advisory Council to raise awareness and support implementation efforts of Return to Learn in NC. Lastly, participants from school personnel (teachers, coaches, nurses, etc.), community members, and parents will discover tools created to support effective concussion support and management in children & youth.
Speaker: Lynn Makor
Lynn is a licensed school psychologist who practiced in the 6th largest school district in NC before transitioning to a state consultant role in April 2014. She has served as a lead developer for both state and district level policies related to evaluation and identification of students with special needs, most specifically Autism Spectrum Disorder, Specific Learning Disabilities and Traumatic Brain Injury.
Lynn is also responsible for coordination and maintenance of the North Carolina Registry of Approved Providers for TBI, which consists of approximately 25% of the school psychology workforce who have received specialized training in conducting IDEA evaluations for TBI consideration.
Lynn is an advocate of prevention and early intervention efforts and has been involved in the training development and implementation planning efforts of an instructional model for SLD evaluation and identification, as well as NC’s concussion monitoring policy for students who have sustained this mTBI.
She is also directly involved in the NC School Mental Health Initiative (NC SMHI), and serves as the DPI liaison to the North Central Regional SMHI Network.
Appointments include: North Carolina Brain Injury Advisory Council, Superintendent’s Working Group on Student Health and Well-Being, and Whole Child NC
Lynn also serves on the Executive Board and Professional Practices Committee of the North Carolina School Psychology Association. She contributes to the work of other committees, such as Legislative and Public Policy and School Safety and Crisis Response.