| Since 1975
... it has been the mission of the Delta
Foundation for Rehabilitation and Research to identify those needs
of people with acquired disability from traumatic brain injury that
are not met by present social, medical and government programs and
to develop and implement strategies for responding to those needs
with the goal of providing the missing elements necessary to better
assure the individual's ability to make the full transition from
coma to community.
Our reach extends to the those
individuals who have experienced traumatic brain injury and are
medically and or categorically indigent. > |
Present medical research
has indicated that the brain, when damaged or injured by trauma, can
to some degree repair itself if the environment around the
individual is enriched with normal living opportunities. If the
individual is to return to any degree of normal living, they must
have fullest opportunity to participate in such activities, thereby
stimulating and exercising the skills and abilities necessary to
return to and/or maintain their functional effectiveness in the
community. The term for this is Cognitive Rehabilitation and it is
Delta's Mission to maximize the occurrence of Cognitive
Rehabilitation however, wherever, and for whomever our resources
permit us to endeavor. |
| On the national front
...
the Delta Foundation has made some small steps in helping collect and
disseminate information on traumatic brain injury by designing and
helping to maintain web sites for the
Brain Injury Association
of America, the National Association of Head Injury Administrators, and more than a
dozen other TBI related web sites.
We also work behind the scene in less public ways.
We work in governmental advocacy, in the implementation of useful
technologies for TBI related organizations, and often, we simply work
one-to-one with someone in need of the kind of comfort that can only
come from someone who's "been there". > |
Traumatic brain injuries may never be entirely
preventable but the agony endured by families, the confusion in the
medical and governmental agencies, and the needless suffering by those
who have sustained a brain injury are all things about which we CAN do
something. That's why were here.
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