Guide for Employers

Understanding Brain Injury: Guide for Employers

Returning to work is a goal that drives most survivors of brain injury through the long and difficult rehabilitation process. Yet when this goal is finally achieved, there is often difficulty adjusting to expectations of the workplace.

Employers are required by the Americans with Disabilities Act to provide reasonable accommodations to help an employee with a disability achieve vocational success.

We have prepared a 28-page booklet to assist employers in this process: Understanding Brain Injury: Guide for Employers (available in PDF format—requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) and Understanding Brain Injury: Guide for Employers in Spanish.

This booklet contains information on the following topics:

• The structure and function of the brain
• The cause of brain injury
• The recovery process
• Behavior, communication, fatigue, and other changes after brain injury
• Examples of simple workplace accommodations