Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Training

This Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) course will explore how the brain works and the part it plays in everyday functioning of the body, including movement, thought, language, memory and controlling of the senses  helping learners to understand the impact that brain injury can have on an individual.

Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is brain damage caused by certain events after birth.  ABI can result in cognitive, physical, emotional or behavioural impairments that lead to permanent or temporary changes in functioning brain.

These impairments may have resulted from either traumatic brain injury (e.g. physical trauma due to accidents, assaults, neurosurgery, head injury etc.) or nontraumatic injury (e.g. brain tumours, stroke, infection,  hypoxia, poisoning, ischemia, encephalopathy or substance abuse)

Who the course is for:

This course is ideal for anyone working with or supporting individuals with any form of brain injury.

Course Objectives and Key Benefits

By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

• Understand how the brain works in physical and mental terms

• Appreciate what happens when a person suffers a traumatic brain injury

• Know more about the various forms of ABI

• Appreciate the effects that an ABI has on a person

• Understand the terminology used in ABI

Outline of Content:

• The brain and how it works

• Traumatic brain injury

• Different forms of ABI and behaviours

• The effects of brain injury

• Common terms used regarding ABI

Course Assessment and Certification

Assessment will be by continuous assessment by the trainer – there is no ‘test’ paper.

A certificate will be issued upon successful completion of course and it is valid for 3 years.