Navigating Reasonable Accommodations: Preparing for Return-to-Work After Brain Injury

For many with brain injury, returning to work is more common than starting a new employment journey, since 70% of individuals who have brain injury are of working age, and one-third of all brain injury happens to adults of working age who are already employed. Research strongly indicates that brain injury can negatively affect work, that people are employed less often, and when employed, often have difficulties in meeting the physical, cognitive, or psychosocial demands of the workplace. This resource outlines how individuals returning to work after brain injury can better prepare, and find support through resources and reasonable accommodations from their employer. Through careful self-assessment of current challenges and dialogue with their employer to navigate the accommodations process when needed, people with brain injury can retain employment.

Authored by NASHIA’s own Maria Crowley, Director of Professional Development, with support from the Administration for Community Living Disability Employment TA Center.