Riding the bus: Teaching an adult with a brain injury to use a transit system to travel independently to and from work

Brain Injury

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 543-550

  Newbigging, E D ^a   Laskey, J W ^a  

^a Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; RURAL AREA; SKILL; TEACHING; TRAVEL; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; WORK RESUMPTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; HEAD INJURY; LEARNING; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; METHODOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; DISABILITY EVALUATION; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RETARDATION; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRAVEL;

EID: 0030057340     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026990596124250     Document Type: Article

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