Edition Overview
This edition of Brain Injury Professional, entitled “Evaluation and Rehabilitation in Children and Young People following Acquired Brain Injury in Low- and Middle-Income Countries”, is guest edited by Leigh Schrieff-Brown, PhD.
Leigh Schrieff-Brown obtained her PhD from, and is currently an Associate Professor in, the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. She is also currently the Deputy Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Funding in the Humanities Faculty at UCT and a registered neuropsychologist in South Africa. She has built a research program around, and teaches primarily in, the area of pediatric traumatic brain injury (especially around a range of outcomes and predictors of those outcomes) and neuropsychological rehabilitation. She supervises and teaches on the pediatric component of the Masters in Clinical Neuropsychology in the
department. She has supervised several postgraduate students (currently from honours to doctoral level), has published book chapters as well as a range of research papers in local and international journals, and presented at several local and international conferences in the above-mentioned fields. In terms of her international
profile, she serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the International Paediatric Brain Injury Society (IPBIS), in which she chairs their Trainee/Early Career Subcommittee, as well as serving on the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Justice and Equity Subcommittee and previously on the INS Science Committee. She is also the Regional representative for South Africa and the deputy chair of the INS Global Engagement Committee (GEC)
Copies of Edition
Table of Contents
- Challenges to Neuropsychological Evaluation and Rehabilitation Following Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury in Africa – Leigh Schrieff-Brown, PhD, Kevin G. F. Thomas, PhD, Winnie Nkoana, Noorjehan Joosub, PhD, Kaylee S. van Wyhe, PhD • Nicole Phillips, PhD
- African Neuropsychology Network (ANN) Core Members 12 Addressing Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury in Latin America: Challenges and Strategic Solutions – Juan Carlos Arango Lasprilla, PhD
- Exploring Challenges to Neuropsychology in Managing Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injuries in Zambia – Lisa Kalungwana, MS
- Neuropsychological Assessment of Children with Traumatic Brain Injury from Low Socio-Economic Circumstances: Insights from South Africa – Dr. Sharon Truter
- Neurorehabilitation in Children and Young People in India: An Overview – Mishali Bhattacharjee, Michelle Manasseh