Peer Inservice (children) - What Works / What Doesn't
When an adult has a brain injury, one of the most difficult transitions is the transition back to work. Will they be able to do the job that they used to do? Will they get along with their co-workers?
It isn't any different for children. School is their work and friends and classmates are their co-workers.Providing a Peer Inservice to help the classmates of the child with an ABI understand how their friend has changed can be helpful in many ways.
We have been providing these sessions for many years for all ages of students - kindergarten to high school - in rural and urban settings. We have learned many things over the years about what works and what doesn't. We would like the opportunity to share our experience with the conference. Our presentation will offer some of the informal research we have been conducting as well as the feedback we have received on our presentations. We will tell about our large and sometimes unexpected successes and our embarrassing failures. We would hope through this brief presentation to encourage others to take the role of Peer and School Inservice very seriously as a possitive step for families and students returning to their schools after a brain injury.