Bancroft’s “Heads-Up” Brain Injury Seminar Series:
Self-Advocacy for People with Brain Injuries
For persons with acquired brain injuries, the ability to advocate for themselves is an important component of rehabilitation, and a key to long-term positive outcomes. By playing a role in decisions that affect them, survivors of brain injury are empowered to take charge of their lives.
What you will learn
- The benefits of developing self-advocacy skills for people with brain injuries
- The skills and abilities involved in self-advocacy, and how to enhance them
- Areas in which self-advocacy skills are most useful, such as seeking
needed services and job-hunting