Professional Organizations

• International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) leading national organization serving and representing individuals, families and professionals who are touched by a life-altering, often devastating, traumatic brain injury (TBI).
• Beroepsvereniging Voor ergotherapeuten - Professional Organisation for Occupational Therapists in the Netherlands.
• North American Brain Injury Society (NABIS) - society comprised of professional members involved in the care or issues surrounding brain injury. The principal mission of the organization is moving brain injury science into practice.
  
• Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) - leading national organization serving and representing individuals, families and professionals who are touched by a life-altering, often devastating, traumatic brain injury (TBI).
  
• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) - professional, scientific, and credentialing association for 135,000 members and affiliates who are speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists in the United States and internationally.
  
• American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) - the national professional association established in 1917 to represent the interests and concerns of occupational therapy practitioners and students of occupational therapy and to improve the quality of occupational therapy services.
  
• National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN) - seeks to advance neuropsychology as a science and health profession, to promote human welfare, and to generate and disseminate knowledge of brain-behavior relationships.
  
• American Academy of Neurology (AAN) - an international professional association of more than 21,000 neurologists and neuroscience professionals dedicated to promoting the highest quality patient-centered neurologic care.
  
• American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) - seeks to enhance the lives of persons living with disabilities through a multidisciplinary approach to rehabilitation, and to promote rehabilitation research and its application in clinical practice.
  
• International Neuropsychological Society (INS) - seeks to promote the international and interdisciplinary study of brain-behavioral relationships throughout the lifespan. The Society's emphasis is on science, education, and the applications of scientific knowledge.
  
• Society for Neuroscience (SfN) - a nonprofit membership organization of scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system.
  
• American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) - a national professional organization representing more than 72,000 members. Its goal is to foster advancements in physical therapy practice, research, and education.
  
• National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET) - provides support and assistance to professionals who teach children with special needs, and seeks to promote standards of excellence and innovation in special education research, practice, and policy in order to foster exceptional teaching for exceptional children.
  
• Academy of Certified Brain Injury Specialists (ACBIS) - a voluntary national certification program for both entry-level staff and experienced professionals working in brain injury services. ACBIS provides staff and professionals the opportunity to learn important information about brain injury, to demonstrate their learning in a written examination, and to earn a nationally recognized credential.
  

Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy

• Brain Tree Training provides "modular courses that have been designed for professionals and carers/relatives. In addition, information about a range of other Cognitive Rehabilitation Services is available, including: Cognitive Assessments, Individualised Cognitive Treatment Programmes, Cognitive Group Work, and Cognitive Treatment Materials."
  
• Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy - The Netherlands - Information about providers of Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy and CPCRT-certified therapists in The Netherlands.
  

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

• Lash and Associates Publishing/Training Inc. publishes "practical, informative, and affordable materials on traumatic brain injury in children, youths, adults and veterans. Our audience includes families, persons with brain injuries, health care professionals, rehabilitation specialists, educators and community staff."
  
• Recommendations for Best Practice in Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy: Acquired Brain Injury - This document from iSCR was produced at a time when various organizations are producing Guidelines and Standards for neurological rehabilitation. It aims to present the basis for best practice in one aspect of this, namely Cognitive Rehabilitation, so that planners, managers, practitioners, people with brain injury, and their families can determine what is required.
  
• The Brain Injury Association of America has an extensive website with comprehensive information about the causes of brain injury, statistics, consequences, numerous resources, and links.
  
• United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum (UKABIF)
  
• Headway - The Brain Injury Association
  
• European Brain Injury Society
  
• TBI Resource Web Sites
  
• About TBI Support Groups

Stroke

• The American Stroke Association focuses on reducing disability and death from stroke.
  
• The Stroke Association (UK)
  

Alzheimer's Disease

• The Alzheimer's Association is the leading voluntary health organization in Alzheimer care, support and research.
  

Disability Resources

• Complete Disability Resource Guide
  
• Web Accessibility Standards
  

Neurology/Neuropsychology

• British Psychological Society Division of Neuropsychology
  
• College of Occupational Therapy Specialist Section in Neurological Practice
  

Special Education

• Special Education Teacher Resource List
  
• Educating Children With Special Needs
  
• Parent-Teacher Guide To Learning Disabilities