Comments on: Guest post: Brandon Leuangpaseuth, tips to graduate with a brain injury. https://www.jumbledbrain.com/guest-post-brandon-tips-graduate-brain-injury/ Discover - Empower - Thrive Wed, 30 Mar 2022 19:51:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brandon Leuangpaseuth https://www.jumbledbrain.com/guest-post-brandon-tips-graduate-brain-injury/#comment-1236 Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:05:40 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=4696#comment-1236 In reply to Jackie.

Hi Jackie,

Thank you! and wow! best wishes to you as you complete your masters.

You have the right attitude!

Keep it up.

Brandon

]]> By: Brandon Leuangpaseuth https://www.jumbledbrain.com/guest-post-brandon-tips-graduate-brain-injury/#comment-1235 Tue, 02 Oct 2018 20:03:18 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=4696#comment-1235 In reply to Lowen.

Hi Lowen,

Thank you! I hope you enjoyed the article 🙂

Best wishes.

Brandon

]]> By: Lowen https://www.jumbledbrain.com/guest-post-brandon-tips-graduate-brain-injury/#comment-1113 Thu, 31 May 2018 07:24:54 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=4696#comment-1113 Just awesome!! And so wonderful that you are paying it forward x Lowen @ livingpositivelywithdisability.com

]]> By: Jackie https://www.jumbledbrain.com/guest-post-brandon-tips-graduate-brain-injury/#comment-1112 Wed, 30 May 2018 13:15:02 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=4696#comment-1112 This is awesome! Congrats Brandon!! I’m also a TBI survivor. I’m hoping to go back and finish my master’s in the fall, so I can greatly appreciate the advice you gave! I never had to buy textbooks before this happened either, but I’m trying to set myself up for every success possible.

]]> By: Barb Kuhns https://www.jumbledbrain.com/guest-post-brandon-tips-graduate-brain-injury/#comment-1110 Tue, 29 May 2018 23:15:21 +0000 https://www.jumbledbrain.com/?p=4696#comment-1110 First, Congrats Brandon!! Thank you for sharing your tips. I am a severe traumatic brain injury survivor, who 13 years after my injury returned to college. I graduated in 2014 with diplomas in Drug & Alcohol and Social Work. I have one more semester and, at the age of 63, will graduate with a Psychology Degree. Over the years Brandon, I came up with the tips you listed. The only thing I would add besides make full use of your school’s Supportive Services Department. They will do the best they can to help you be successful. The only thing I would add is that I contact every one of my professors/teachers at the beginning of the semester and introduce myself and make an appointment to meet with them one on one. They all receive a Disability Accommodations letter listing the things Brandon mentioned, i.e. digital recorder, double time for tests etc., however, that doesn’t give my instructors a clue as to what I need to be successful in their class. I explain that I had a STBI and let them know I have very little short-term memory, my need for repetition to make the information “stick” in my brain. I also warn them that I ask a lot of questions because I need detailed clarification on most things. I tell them if they give general instructions on an assignment, most of the class will get it, and it will go right over my head. I learned to do this after I did a number of essays, papers, projects that were totally wrong because I perceived the assignment incorrectly. If I get an assignment now, I go to the teacher and say, “So you want me to………, am I correct?” The majority of my professors have been great and willing to work with me. My algebra professor was awesome, I had such a hard time–haven’t done algebra in 45 years. Professor Kane made it her mission to have me pass. She tutored me daily after class and allowed me to use a sheet with the algebraic formulas on it when I took my exams because there were so many that I confused them if I went from memory. She also allowed me to have unlimited time for exams. I fought for that one and asked, “Do you want to know if I can do the work or how fast I can do it?’ She relented and I passed every exam after that. You can do it too, be your own advocate.

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