This section talks about your child in hospital after an acquired brain injury, the tests and treatments you may encounter, and the professionals you may meet along the way.
It covers the next steps after hospital, whether your child is going to a specialist centre for rehabilitation or having rehabilitation and therapies at home or in the community. Palliative care is also covered.
This section offers some ideas for managing while your child is in hospital.
Find out about the professionals you may meet in hospital.
Read about the tests and treatments healthcare professionals may carry out after a brain injury.
This section sets out the different departments in a hospital and the ones you might see when you are there.
Read about the different kinds of rehabilitation centres, and how children arrive at them.
This section talks about what rehabilitation is, and what it hopes to achieve.
Read our guide to the therapies after brain injury.
This section explains what ‘outcome measures’ and ‘assessments’ are and why they are used.
This section talks about some of the therapies you may not find in mainstream healthcare.
This section talks about palliative care for children and what this means. It also talks about who can help families access this kind of care.
