Interdependence: The Route to Community offers new approaches to the ways in which people relate and the ways we address social issues. Recognizing the limitations of the medical/expert approaches that have dominated the care and treatment of persons with disabilities, this book offers a new prescription for change based on partnership between service providers and service recipients. The penetrating, often hard-hitting exploration of the goals of human services clears the air on how and why the current medical/expert paradigm has failed. The text introduces an interdependent paradigm - an alternative approach to how people and systems can relate. This book is for educators, counselors, physicians, nurses, administrators, persons with disabilities, family members, community and religious leaders, engineers, government officials and politicians. The information is not merely to be read, but applied.

Thoughtful and relevant this work will be both interesting and necessary reading for any professional involved in brain injury. -Disability Resources Monthly

This manual is designed to help professionals improve quality of service with durable outcomes that provides maximum independence. The Shortest Distance offers concrete solutions to common problems in brain injury treatment using the success story of Learning Services Corporation as its model. The text illustrates how one healthcare company achieved increased quality cost-effectiveness, gained a clear understanding of the rehabilitation business, including the basic principles and tenets of rehabilitation and initiated behavioral changes with the organization to carry through with those principles.

This manual offers information about community integration issues specific to persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Integrating Community Resources identifies programs and services available to persons with TBI and provides information and strategies that will facilitate receipt of those resources. Chapters in this unique book include: Understanding Language and Attitudinal Barriers - Employment Implications for Persons with TBI - Independent Living - Housing: Funding and Legal Issues - SSA Programs - State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies - Community Based Services - Legal Assistance - Substance Abuse - Sexuality and Brain Injury - Neuropsychological Checklist - Driving Evaluations and Programs. The Appendix includes plates which can be turned into transparencies or slides.