Brain Injury Australia’s 9th National Brain Injury Conference will be held from September 24-26 at the Adelaide Oval, South Australia.
The conference is one of the leading learning and development events on the disability calendar, driving improvement in services and supports for people living with a brain injury, their families and carers.
There are three pre-conference workshops on Tuesday September 24, looking into family violence and brain injury, concussion/’mild’ traumatic brain injury, and behavioural disability after brain injury.
On day one, a joint opening address and international keynote address will be given by Che Phillips and Bruce Powell with Professor Mark Bayley, Coriat Family Chair in Rehabilitation Innovations at the University of Toronto, Canada.
There are 12 conference sessions on day one with topics covering children, peer support, employment, innovations in therapy, sexuality, brain injury in the military and technology.
The international keynote address on day two will be presented by Associate Professor Eve Valera, from the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. The first session also introduces ‘Tools for Ageing Well with Traumatic Brain Injury’, the first Australian resource of its kind.
Conference sessions on day two cover domestic and family violence, housing and mild traumatic brain injury.
Discounted registration is available for people with a brain injury, their family members and carers.