Role of the Aspen School District BrainSTEPS Team

The Aspen School District BrainSTEPS Team provides:

  • Consultation to educators on brain injury (BI) specific cases. Per request, BrainSTEPS CO team members will provide consultation to educators on specific cases. This may include individual case consultation, as well as attendance at team meetings, IEP meetings, or 504 meetings.

  • Technical assistance to educators on specific BI cases. Per request, BrainSTEPS CO team members will provide technical assistance in the form of demonstration of teaching or behavioral techniques; modeling and coaching of teaching and behavior strategies, etc.

  • Consultation to parents on any student with BI referred to the team. Dissemination of BI resource information for parents of newly injured students. Ongoing communication regarding services team is providing for student.

  • School re-entry coordination. BrainSTEPS CO team members will facilitate the transition from hospital/rehab to the school setting for all students with BI. This requires that teams develop a system for notification of students who are hospitalized with BI.

  • Brain injury awareness training. Teams will respond to requests for general BI overview training. In addition, teams will offer BI training to groups that they feel would benefit from such training.

  • Student specific BI training. BrainSTEPS CO teams will provide BI training to a student’s team, focusing on the student’s unique needs.

  • Dissemination of BI resource information (e.g., written information, links to websites, referrals to community resources, etc.) to educators, families, and community providers working with students with BI.