Brain Injury Webinar: Therapy in the Community 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: 9/22/20 A creative, multifaceted, and interdisciplinary approach to brain injury rehabilitation is essential to overcoming the obstacles faced with traditional, “one-size-fits-all” care and limited funding for TBI services. This webinar will be promoting the benefits of multiple disciplines working in coordination instead of separately. It will discuss values of community integration and how various goals are addressed with functional, therapeutic tasks (building on restorative and compensatory strategies). The webinar will further investigate everyday tasks at home with a brain injury and how these methods can be modified to encourage engagement.
Speakers:
Susan White, OTR/L, CBIS, received her occupational therapy degree from East Carolina University in 1995 and has specialized in TBI for the past 13 years. Susan is a private practitioner with her company Innovative OT Solutions, INC providing OT and specialized consultative services. Her contracts include NeuroRestorative, Alliance TBI waiver, Tlc home, as well as other private insurances. Susan focuses her treatment on a holistic approach to rehabilitation incorporating physical, cognitive, visual perceptual components to maximize each client’s potential in order to live a meaningful, productive life. Susan utilizes community integration and therapy in “real life” settings for individualized treatment plans that incorporate preserved skills and passions. Examples include therapeutic volunteer work, leisure pursuits, shopping, projects, or exercising at the local gym. Susan values an interdisciplinary treatment approach to help clients restore function as well as family and caregiver education in order for each person to maximize their independence and quality of life.
Courtney Wallace, MPT, is a Physical Therapist with 18 years of clinical experience, 16 of them specializing in stroke and traumatic brain injury. She received her Master's Degree in Physical Therapy from Elon University in 2002. Courtney has worked in a variety of settings throughout the spectrum of patient care including: ICU, acute, sub-acute, transitional care, home health care, and outpatient settings. In 2004 she became NEURO-IFRAH certified and began to specialize in the treatment of brain injury and stroke patients. Courtney’s training and certification have provided her specialized handling techniques that help restore normal movement in any level of brain injury or stroke patient. She has also completed the NEURO-IFRAH "Advanced Function in Upright Postures" and "Advanced Gait" courses, which provide advanced techniques for the treatment and management of adults suffering from hemiplegia as a result of a stroke or brain injury. Courtney practices a whole-person approach, striving to help clients return to independent living and to resume normal life roles including running 5k races, getting back to playing sports/enjoying hobbies using adaptive measures, and through local volunteer activities. She individualizes her treatment for each client by integrating cognition, motor ability and the environment for maximum carryover to functional task performance. Additionally, she strives to incorporate an interdisciplinary treatment approach and family/caregiver education in order to achieve positive outcomes.
Judy Kinnally, M.Ed., CCC/SLP received a Master’s degree in Speech Pathology from NC Central University as well as a Master’s degree in Administrative Education from East Carolina University and has been working as a speech pathologist for the past 27 years in a variety of settings. Over 10 years ago her passion to work primarily with TBI clients was ignited while working at a TBI Neurobehavioral facility. Since that time, she has worked on creating functional therapeutic treatment plans that focus on restorative and compensatory strategies as well as community reintegration for the TBI clients she serves.