Dave has an excellent post, a list from a book, on 40 things needed the most after someone gets a brain injury. I posted the ones most important/ relevant to me. Keep in mind that, like John Byler says, brain injuries are like fingerprints- they're all different.
http://temporallobeblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-my-brain-injury-these-are-40.html
1) I am not stupid, I am wounded. Please respect me.
2) Come close, speak slowly, and enunciate clearly
4) Be as patient with me the 20th time you teach me something, as you were the first.
10) Honour the healing power of sleep
12) Stimulate my brain when I have any energy to learn something new, but know that a small amount may wear me out quickly.
16) Trust that I am trying – Just not with your skill level or on your schedule
17) Ask me multiple choice questions. Avoid Yes/No questions
18) Ask me questions with specific answers. Allow me time to hunt for an answer.
19) Do not assess my cognitive ability by how fast I can think.
24) Break all actions down into smaller steps of actions.25) Look for what obstacles prevent me from succeeding on a task
27) Remember that I have to be proficient at one level of function before I can move on the next level.
28) Celebrate all of my little successes. They inspire me.
29) Please don’t finish my sentences of me or fill in words I can’t find. I need to work my brain.
31) I may want you to think I understand more than I really do
32) Focus on what I can do rather than bemoan what I cannot do.
34) Remember that in the absence of some functions, I have gained other abilities
37) Love me for who I am today. Don’t hold me to being the person I was before. I have a different brain now.
38) Be protective of me but do not stand in the way of my progress.
40) Remember that my medications probably make me feel tired, as well as mask m ability to know what it feels like to be me.
Taken from My Stroke Of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
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