Resources and events for professionals

The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust (BIRT) provides a range of events and resources for professionals working in the field of brain injury. Click the links below to find out more.

• Memory Tests for Neuropsychologists: we can supply you with a memory testing kit developed to help your practice (BMIPB).
• Free educational seminars: we offer free educational seminars during the year which are hosted by our regional services. Book now to secure your place.
• The Brain Injury Needs Indicator (BINI) is a free tool designed to be used by social workers or other assessors during a social care assessment, for the purpose of finding out how well someone has recovered from their brain injury and to determine what social care support they might need.
• The BIRT Guide to Living is a 70-page manual for people with brain injury, their families, carers and professionals who work with them.
• Research: read about the latest research BIRT's clinicians and research staff have been working on.

The BIRT Memory and Information Processing Battery (BMIPB)

The tests enable clinical neuropsychologists to measure how much a brain injury is affecting someone's memory and information processing. This vital information is then used to plan individual rehabilitation programmes and to chart the person's recovery.

The BMIPB includes seven sub-tests and has been calibrated on a group of 300 British healthy adults ranging in age from 16 to 89. It is not only used by the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust(BIRT) but by many other clinical services. The BMIPB was developed by Dr Michael Oddy in collaboration with Dr Tony Coughlan (the creator of the original version of the battery) and Professor John Crawford, an expert in test construction from the University of Aberdeen.