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:
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

No Regular August Meeting!

This month, some BABIS members will be attending an outing on the Spirit of Boston Cruise. Unfortunately we are at capacity for this event, so no one else can join. We do these outings annually, so if you missed it this year, you'll be able to come next year. If you are already signed up and have any questions, please contact Alecia Golden via e-mail at agolden@brain-injury-rehab.com,

September 5nd Meeting

Our next regular BABIS will occur on September 11th from 10am-12pm.The topic will be "Grieving Process Through the Years" with Janet Mooney, LICSW.

Family/Caregiver Group Will Meet

Our Family/Caregiver group will meet on September 11th during the regular BABIS meeting.

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