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B i I j i Ch Li Brain Injuries Change Lives Survivors’s Ink

• Dr. Janet Stumbo

Key Points Key Points

• 25 years of follow up data

25 years of follow up data

• Brain injuries required me to reinvent myself
• Many moves:

– Victoria and ACT in Australia – California and Washington State in the US

• 17 years of doing VT daily

Time Line of Events Time Line of Events

• June 26, 1984 – MVA – Head Trauma ‐ head

Ju e 6, 98 ead au a ead trauma: optic nerve damage, amnesia, and extensive damage to (R)occipital, parietal, l f l l b temporal, & frontal lobes

• July 1984 ‐ First VA measures at Royal Canberra

H it l Hospital

• March 1987 – 1st referral to behavioural
• ptometry

begin VT

• ptometry – begin VT
• July 1992 – VA improves to 20/20 (6/6) for 1st

time time.

Change of Visual Acuity over Time

250 150 200 20) 100 VA Measure (x/2 VA‐OD VA‐OS 50 Jul‐84 ec‐84 ay‐85 Oct‐85 ar‐86 ug‐86 an‐87 un‐87

• v‐87

Apr‐88 ep‐88 eb‐89 Jul‐89 ec‐89 ay‐90 Oct‐90 ar‐91 ug‐91 an‐92 un‐92

• v‐92

Apr‐93 ep‐93 eb‐94 Jul‐94 ec‐94 ay‐95 Oct‐95 ar‐96 J D M O M Au Ja Ju No A Se Fe J D M O M Au Ja Ju No A Se Fe J D M O M

I write I write my story

Thank you. Thank you.

Publications by Janet Stumbo:

St b J t 2007 “Di bilit & L d hi ” C it B i R i S i l C I

• Stumbo, Janet. 2007. “Disability & Leadership”, Community Business Review: Social Compass, Issue

2, November 2007.

• Ria Strong, Janet Stumbo, Geoff Tresise, Neil Blenkiron, and John Wakefield. 2000. “Livingwith brain

injury: Five Survivors Speak”. Disability Studies Quarterly Summer (2000). 20(3): 259‐263.

• Stumbo, Janet. 2000. “The Shadow of Death”: in Bone of my Bone. Helen Annand, Ed. Bendigo,

i i Victoria.

• Stumbo, Janet. “A Story of Courage and Determination”. Coleidoscope. Official publication of Rotary

District 9800. March 1999.

• Stumbo, Dr. Janet A., 1998. Endless Journey. Optometric Extension Program Foundation, Inc. Santa
• Ana. 2nd edition. 2006
• Stumbo, J.A., 1987. “A suspected case of Equine Herpesvirus Type 1 encephalomyelitis”. Australian
• Vet. Journal. 64(11): 350.
• York, G.K., Arth, C., Stumbo, J.A., Cross, C.E. and Mustafa, M.G. 1973. “Effects of cigarette smoke

and tobacco extract on lung macrophage respiration”. Arch.Environ.Health.27:96‐8.

• Janet Stumbo Tom Worsnop & Cath McNamara “Developing Community Participation: an ABI

Janet Stumbo, Tom Worsnop & Cath McNamara. Developing Community Participation: an ABI perspective”. 2009. Victorian Coalition of ABI Service Providers (VCASP) in Intellectual Disability Policy Roundtable.