- Instructor: TNSTEP
Project BRAIN (Brain Resource and Information Network) delivers training and resources to facilitate teamwork for teachers, families, health professionals, and all who support students in Tennessee with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). A program of the TN Disability Coalition since 2000, BRAIN is designed to improve outcomes for children and youth in Tennessee who experience TBI. Through a partnership with the TN Department of Health’s TBI program and the TN Department of Education, the program has trained thousands who educate, parent, coach, and care for students of any age. In recent years BRAIN has expanded to include three liaisons at partnering children’s hospitals across the state for a follow-up process that helps to provide the communication link between the hospital, home, and school.
Tennessee Deaf-Blind Project (TNDB) is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (Grant H326T130030), that provides families, educators, and other professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to improve outcomes for individuals, age’s birth through 21, who have a combined hearing and vision loss. Technical assistance and support are provided FREE to an individual who has both vision and hearing loss or has a diagnosis that leads to vision and hearing loss.
Presenters:
Jennifer J. Rayman, Ed.S., CRC, CBIS, Project Brain, Curriculum Coordinator / Trainer
Mrs. Rayman has been with Project BRAIN since 2003. While PB grew in numbers and in goals to support students with Concussion/Traumatic Brain Injury, Jennifer completed an Education Specialist Degree in 2007 in Special Education and Brain Injury at The George Washington University. Jennifer is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and a Certified Brain Injury Specialist. She is married to a devoted teacher/coach and they have a sweet 18-month-old son, Jackson, and a poodle named Tyler.
Danna Conn, M.S., CEIM, Tennessee Deaf-Blind Project, Project Coordinator, Division of Developmental Medicine and the Center for Children
Development, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Mrs. Conn has worked as the Project Coordinator for the past 3 years to provide coordination for the daily activities of the project, staff supervision, and continued collaborations with agencies/ individuals across the state to address system and child outcomes through providing evidence-based technical assistance, training, and consultation, ensure collection of evaluation data and census and increase public awareness about deaf-blindness. She has previously worked as an Early Intervention Specialist in North Carolina and EDIS in Aviano, Italy for over 10 years.
Archived Webinar: Lunchtime Leaders: Improved Outcomes – Strategies and Training for Providers and Families of Children and Youth with Hearing/ Vision Loss or Traumatic Brain Injury
Handouts and Resources:
- Project BRAIN PPT 4-14-16
- Project_BRAIN-_t-a-Glance multiple languages
- Project_BRAIN_Signs-Symptoms Child’s Multiple Languages (1)
- TN Deaf-Blind Project Webinar Presentation 2016
TNSTEP Lunchtime Leaders Webinar Recorded: 04/14/2016
