Community Education
What is in a presentation
An Acquired Brain Injury can change your life forever. Our panel of presenters will share their lived experience to highlight the behaviours that can typically lead to a brain injury, and the impact this has had on their lives.
Our presentations include:
Facts about acquired brain injury including traumatic brain injury through motor vehicle accidents
Guest speaker/s who have sustained an acquired brain injury through a motor vehicle accident, fall, assault or heart attack.
Carer experience video
Interaction/question time.
Videos
Book a Presentation
Each presentation is for up to 1 hour.
Presentations can be tailored to suite your individual requirements.
Preview Presentations
Speakers talk about their personal experiences with the aim of preventing brain injuries from happening to other people and to raise awareness in the general community. Headway ADP has a powerful panel of guest speakers with ‘real life’ stories about the impact that acquired brain injury has had on their lives.
Thanh
Having risked his life to escape from Vietnam with his family, there was no way to know that just a few short years later Thanh’s life would be in jeopardy again.
Michael
Michael was 22 years old when he was out partying and drinking with mates. Life was good – one miscalculation resulted in a 7 metre fall. Life was changed forever..
Peter
In April 2000, on the day before his birthday, Peter was hit by a bus while crossing against the lights at a busy intersection. The impact of the accident left Peter with many injuries including a traumatic brain injury.
Harley
Leaving a pub in the early hours of the morning after a night of drinking and drugs Harley unwittingly stepped into the path of an oncoming taxi. His life changed forever.