Brain Injury Webinar: Preschool-Age Children & Brain Injury 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: 5-24-22 This session will discuss pediatric brain injury focusing on preschoolers. Current research regarding preschool brain injury's effects on the developing brain will be explored. The session will discuss common causes, post-brain injury signs and symptoms, identification, brain development, sensitive learning periods of development, child versus adult brains, and key differences between TBI and other types of learning disabilities in children. Steps that parents can take to ensure their child's brain injury is relayed to school staff over the years will be shared. Preschool-age brain injury will be explored through the lens of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Speaker: Brenda Eagan-Johnson Ed.D., CBIST has over two decades of experience in the field of pediatric brain injury, education, and neuro-developmental issues in children. Dr. Eagan-Johnson is instrumental in the creation, ongoing development, and daily oversight of the nationally recognized Pennsylvania statewide child and adolescent brain injury school consulting program, BrainSTEPS – Brain Injury School Re-Entry Consulting Program. She also serves as a consultant for a CDC funded study related to BrainSTEPS student outcomes. She holds a Doctor of Education degree in Mind, Brain, and Teaching (educational neuroscience) from Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, Dr. Eagan-Johnson serves on the Board of Governors for the Academy of Certified Brain Injury Specialists under the Brain Injury Association of America. In this position, she is helping to write the pediatric portion of a new national concussion certification. Her brother sustained a severe TBI when they were teenagers, which is where her passion for helping students began.