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Assessing
Disability
After Brain Injury: New Science, New Methods
Valerie Stone, PhD ~ 4 Hrs
September 10, 2010 ~ 9:00am-1:00pm
San Francisco, CA
Clinicians who attend this workshop will get better results in less
time
when assessing brain injured clients, help protect the interests of
clients with brain injury, and expand income-generating
options.
Are you frustrated by seeing
brain-injured clients denied benefits they need? Research on brain
injury is constantly evolving, and
who can keep up with all the latest research while running a clinical
practice?
Unlike classes that just provide information about research, this
workshop focuses on giving
you the newest, most effective techniques in evidence-based practice
for
your clients that you can start
using tomorrow. Rather than lecturing about brain injury, this workshop
shows how to network with other
professionals who need your expertise. Because the instructor, Dr.
Valerie Stone, works with many
different kinds of professionals, she will give you specific tools for
expanding your consulting
opportunities with legal professionals and government agencies.
This MCEP program will:
• bring you up to date on new assessment tools for brain-injured
clients,
measuring both
cognitive and social functioning objectively.
• brief you on commonly-used assessments that are not reliably
sensitive to brain injury.
• show you new approaches to rehabilitation.
• work with you on how to expand your contacts with other professionals
who need your
expertise.
The result: You help people genuinely disabled by brain
injury get the
benefits they need, while you
experience less stress.
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Valerie Stone, PhD, (BA, Harvard, 1985; PhD
Stanford, 1990) is an international educator and
researcher who focuses on protecting individuals with brain injuries,
dementia, autism, or Asperger
syndrome.
She has published many scientific articles on how to assess
people in these populations,
and keeps up to date with the latest research because she actually
loves to read scientific articles that
might lead to help for people with brain disorders. She is a skilled
teacher: she has taught
neuroscience, behavioral neurology, and social neuroscience at the U.
of Denver, U.C. Santa
Barbara, and the U. of Queensland, Australia, and offers continuing
education courses to
psychologists, lawyers, and judges about brain injury, dementia, and
autism. She works on advocacy
for individuals affected by brain disorders, through the Board of the
Guardianship Alliance of
Colorado and has been on the editorial board of two scientific
journals devoted to neuroscience,
Cortex and Social Neuroscience.
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