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Senate Appropriations Committee to Consider Labor/HHS Draft Bill this Thursday! Tell your Senators to Bolster Funds for Brain Injury Programs
On Thursday July 29, 2010, the Senate Appropriations Committee will consider a draft version of a Fiscal Year 2011 Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor/HHS) bill. Contained in the bill will be provisions important to people with brain injury including programs authorized through the TBI Act as well as the TBI Model [...]
Continue reading...Appropriations July 29 Update
Saturday, July 31, 2010
On Thursday, July 29, 2010, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $732 billion fiscal 2011 spending bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. The draft bill would provide $169.6 billion in discretionary funding — a $5.9 billion, or 4 percent, increase from the level for the current fiscal year, but [...]
Continue reading...Tell Your Senators To Increase Funding for Important Brain Injury Programs!
Friday, July 23, 2010
On Tuesday July 27, 2010, the Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor/HHS) will consider a draft version of a Fiscal Year 2011 appropriations bill. Contained in the bill will be provisions important to people with brain injury including programs authorized through the TBI Act as well as the [...]
Continue reading...Appropriations Update
Friday, July 23, 2010
On Tuesday July 27, 2010, the Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor/HHS) will consider a draft version of the FY11 appropriations bill. Contained in the bill will be provisions important to people with brain injury including programs authorized through the TBI Act as well as the TBI Model [...]
Continue reading...Appropriations Update
Saturday, July 17, 2010
On Thursday, July 15, 2010, the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies voted to approve a FY2011 draft spending bill. The bill would provide a total of $738.7 billion, $12.7 billion more than FY2010 levels but $1.5 billion less than the President’s request. The draft bill contains the funding [...]
Continue reading...Social outcomes of preschoolers with TBI
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
It is commonly thought that children show rapid improvement after a traumatic brain injury because of either increased neuroplasticity or the ability for young brains to re-organize after injury. However, research that supports this notion has often been limited to cognitive and motor skills. A recent study took a broader view of recovery after pediatric TBI. [...]
Continue reading...Return to work: Is the workplace ready for the TBI survivor?
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Occupational therapists work one-on-one with people after a traumatic brain injury in order to recover as much of a pre-injury daily life as possible. Return to work, with its financial, social, and psychological advantages, is one important goal in occupational therapy. However, assessing a patient for the ability to return to work can be challenging—factors [...]
Continue reading...Appropriations Update
Saturday, July 3, 2010
On Thursday, July 1, 2010, the House adopted a one-year spending (H. Res. 1493) plan instead of a traditional five-year budget resolution, which has stalled because of intraparty differences over spending levels and concern over budget deficits. The plan, which Democrats call a “budget enforcement resolution” for fiscal 2011, would set a limit of $1.121 trillion [...]
Continue reading...Federal TBI Program Update
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
On June 15, 2010, BIAA and other TBI stakeholders met with Mary Wakefield, the Administrator of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to discuss the future of the federal TBI program, one of the programs funded through the TBI Act. The federal TBI program provides grants to states to improve [...]
Continue reading...Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Holds Brain Injury Benchmarking Hearing
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
On May 5, 2010, The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee held a hearing examining the efforts of the Department of Veterans Affairs in responding to the rehabilitation needs of veterans with TBI since the passage of the TBI-related provisions as part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008. BIAA passed its slot to testify to [...]
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