N-ABLES Steers Roundtable at International Paediatric Brain Injury Symposium in New York

The National Acquired Brain Injury in Learning and Education Syndicate (N-ABLES) is hosting a roundtable at the International Paediatric Brain Injury Symposium (IPBIS) in New York on Thursday, 22nd September. The event aims to gather information and knowledge about education policy for children and young people with Acquired Brain Injury in those countries where it is already established, with the aim to share it globally. 

Dr Emily Bennett, Chair of the N-ABLES Steering Group will be chairing the roundtable entitled ‘Supporting Best Practice When Children Return to School after ABI: Guidance and Influencing Policy Around the World’.  Emily will be joined by Dr Gemma Costello, from the N-ABLES Steering Group, Professor Vicki Anderson of Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia, and Dr Melissa McCart who is based at the University of Oregon, USA.

Emily and Gemma will also participate in the pre-conference session Perspectives About Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury and its Treatment: An Integrated Systems of Care Approach on Wednesday 21^st September and will present a poster entitled Time for Change in the United Kingdom: Returning to Education Post Acquired Brain Injury.

More information about IPBIS is available in their newsletter which includes an article about N-ABLES. https://www.internationalbrain.org/uploads/IPBIS-Newsletter-Volume-1-Issue-3.pdf

N-ABLES publication ‘ABI Return – Children and Young People with Acquired Brain Injury – guiding their return to education’ is now part of the IPBIS Toolbox 2022 https://ipbis.org/toolbox. The toolbox ‘Guidance for the post-discharge rehabilitation of children, adolescents and young adults with acquired brain injury’ is produced by the IPBIS together with The Eden Dora Trust for Children with Encephalitis and contains summaries of a wide range of tools and programmes for professionals who work with children, adolescents, and young adults, with mild to severe ABI, and their families and carers. 

N-ABLES would like to thank The Lovel Foundation, CL Medilaw, Enable Law, Irwin Mitchell, JMW Solicitors LLP and Bolt Burdon Kemp LLP whose support has enabled the N-ABLES team to participate in this event.

Image shows Emily and Gemma on their way to NYC  - they were given a free upgrade on their flight!