Brain Injury Dialogues will be airing on 15 PBS stations across the USA beginning February 19th. The scheduling was timed for March, 'Brain Injury Awareness Month'. Some brain in jury statistics:
- About 20,000 US military TBI's (traumatic brain injuries) occur each year, with a smaller number attributable to Gulf War injuries
- Over 1.5 million TBI's occur each year to US citizens
- Currently over 5 million US citizens are disabled due to a TBI
- TBI is only one of many types and causes of brain injury
Brain injury is a profoundly under-addressed subject and effects millions of Americans every day both directly and indirectly. The Brain Injury Dialogues documentary is an effort to help raise this issue to the level of dialogue it deserves both culturally and socially, as well as help generate an accurate identity and representation for this disability.
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