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Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program |
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 Emergency Assistive Technology Fund
FAAST and the Florida Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program (BSCIP) have partnered to identify and assist Floridians with brain and/or Spinal cord injuries to obtain assistive technology. The products can range from simple devices like grab bars to high-tech items such as lift transfer systems.
Eligibility Requirements:
The client must be diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and/or spinal cord injury.
Monthly income must not exceed $2,600.00 per applicant, or 300% of the U.S. Department of Human Services Federal Poverty guidelines.
Income is based on client’s individual income, not household income.
The applicant must be a full time resident of Florida, in accordance with Chapter 222.17 of the Florida Statutes.
Client may be required to show proof of need for the AT Fund such as, a letter of recommendation from a physician or therapist for new devices & repair services.
Applicants must show evidence that all other sources of similar benefits such as: Medicare, Medicaid, BSCIP, settlements, Veteran, Workers Compensation, Vocational Rehabilitation and private insurance funds are exhausted or denied.
Fund Limits:
The fund amount will cover the cost of AT ranging from $100.00 to $5,000.00 and may be combined with other community matching funds to purchase AT Aids. Subject to the availability of funds.
Stroke and Brain Injury
Video - Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor discusses brain function
Book Review
My Stroke of Insight
Non-Fiction by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D., Viking, 2008, ISBN 978-0-670-02074-4
Reviewed by Susan J. Redmon, R.N., M.P.H., C.R.R.N., C.C.M.
When was the last time you stopped to really smell the roses? Or meditated while watching the sun set over the horizon? Or celebrated the connection of all of your atoms with all the other atoms in the universe? Jill Bolte Taylor learned the function and value of those types of right brain activities when she suffered from a large left brain hemorrhagic stroke on the morning of December 10, 1996.
Read More on page 11 of FAAST Access Winter 2009
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