Purpose of BABIS:

––– Provide socialization for individuals with acquired brain injury, and their families and friends.

––– Educate the community about acquired brain injury.

––– Supply members and the community with local and national resources.

––– Offer support and coping strategies.

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Professor Cromer Learns to Read
Professor Cromer Learns to Read:
A Couple's New Life after Brain Injury

by Janet M. Cromer

BABIS will have copies of Janet's book on sale at BABIS meetings. Hardcover copies are $23 plus tax, and paperback copies are $15 plus tax.

Anyone interested in future events please contact
Sally Johnson at: 617-573-2539

Please join us on the
First Saturday of the Month*
at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
125 Nashua Street,
Boston, MA 02114
in Conference Rooms 8A & 8B
from 10AM to 12PM


BABIS June Meeting:
Resources and Services
June 4th, 2011

Saturday, June 4th
10am-12pm
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

On June 4th, representatives from local community resources will join us to discuss programs for brain injury survivors. Special guest speakers will be Arlene Korab, BIAMA, Executive Director and Brent Gassett, MRC Vocational Rehabilitation and BABIS Planning Committee Member.

Please join us!

Help BABIS Celebrate it's 10th Year!
Thank you to Sally Johnson and all of the current and former BABIS Planning Committee members and participants who continue to make BABIS such a wonderful social and educational resource for brain injury survivors and their family members!

Family/Caregiver Group Will Have A Regular Meeting

Spouses, partners, adult children, family, friends, loved ones, etc. are welcome to join Terry McKinney and fellow caregivers of survivors of brain injury for their regular support meeting. This meeting will occur at the same time as the regular BABIS meeting.

Special reminder:

June 4th will be the last BABIS meeting at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital until September 10. There will not be a meeting in July and we will have our annual Spirit Cruise Outing in August.

Please contact Sally Johnson 617-573-2539 for further information.


BABIS is proud to report the publication of "Professor Cromer Learns to Read: A Couple's New Life after Brain Injury"

by Janet M. Cromer, RN, MA, LMHC.

Janet, and her husband, Dr. Alan Cromer, were among the group of dedicated individuals who founded BABIS in 2001, and Janet was the first Facilitator of the Family/Caregiver Support Group which began several years later.

This remarkable story of Janet and Alan's journey following his Anoxic Brain Injury in July 1998 is described by Lee Woodruff (coauthor of "In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing"):

"Janet Cromer has captured so elegantly and emotionally the ups and downs and roller coaster ride of experiencing a brain injury....
Cromer takes us beyond the injury and into the recovery, which, while painstaking, never fails to help us understand the beauty and the grace of little things, and to cherish what we do have."

PLEASE JOIN THE
BOSTON ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY
SUPPORT GROUP

For more information about BABIS,

eMail BABIS: babisgroup@hotmail.com
contact Sally Johnson by phone at
617.573.2539