ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Many thanks to all the BRAIN BOOK® System students (and their helpers) who have contributed essential feedback over the years. While there is no way to thank the hundreds of users who have helped finetune essential features of the BRAIN BOOK® System, this is our attempt to acknowledge their hundreds of thousands of hours of dedicated hard work – as well as their important contributions. With their help, BRAIN BOOK® System has evolved over 15 years, to become the most naturalistic, user-friendly and comprehensive cognitive “orthotic” in the world.

Special Thanks to...

Dr. Helen Fellenbaum: “Working hard is good, but learning how to outsmart your brain injury is better.” NeuroCare Residential Treatment Program, Concord, California, December 1990

Angela Barber: Angela was the first student to surprise everyone by filing away a STEPS card (STEPS for packing for a camping trip), then retrieving it a year later when she needed it to plan for another trip. Ashland, Oregon, Summer 1993

Marilyn Hern: Marilyn noted that most people use yellow to highlight important items, so yellow became the official BRAIN BOOK® System color to indicate that an item was especially “important.” Seattle, Washington, November 1995

Jenny Way: Jenny improved TALK TO pages by suggesting that these pages have a pre-printed line down the center so users could write what the person they are talking to said in response (instead of writing it as a “Memory Note). This option was incorporated into the System. Medford, Oregon, 2001

Michelle Smith: Michelle suggested that a smaller version of Memory Notes would help her do her waitressing job. The “Clipboard Memory Notes Pad” was born. Fairfield, CA, 2000.

Carolyn Bass: Carolyn resisted writing a check mark in the “To Do Cue” column and instead drew an open circle (to indicate that a scheduling trigger existed inside a “Memory Note”). This was not only natural for her, but it was a better symbol, so it was incorporated into the new BRAIN BOOK® System Work Manager’s Memory Notes and ROUTINES Cards. Portland, Oregon, 2007

Thank you everyone!