Work starts on brain injury rehabilitation centre in Llanelli
Work has started on a centre of excellence in Llanelli to help people who have sustained a brain injury. The residential centre is being developed by the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust (BIRT), a national charity that helps people regain the skills lost as a result of a road accident, stroke, assault or illness. The Trust specialises in helping people who have a problem with understanding, socialising and behaviour as well as physical problems. The Llanelli project, which will be the first of its kind in Wales, is designed to enable service users to live closer to their families and local community while they are undergoing rehabilitation. BIRT helps people with a range of programmes that are aimed at the needs of people at different stages after their injury from initial assessment and rehabilitation, to community-based or long term residential support. BIRT’s rehabilitation process involves a multi-disciplinary team of neuropsychologists, occupational, physio and speech and langua...