THE UNDERTAKING

1. To make a tour of brain injury rehabilitation programmes in the United States, deliberately choosing those that put forward a range of distinctive and successful approaches to the problems presented. To see programmes that are different from one another, but still comparably successful.

2. To learn from these programmes; to understand their overt aims and underlying principles; to discover their origins and track their development; to find out what they do well and what they do less well.

3. To ask participants in these programmes what is important to them - why they engage and what they get out of it.

4. To attempt to draw out any common elements that are apparent across the diverse programmes visited.

5. To bring what I learn back to London and use it to extend and improve the work of Headway East London and its affiliates.