ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
My heartfelt thanks to the following people for their contributions and support in creating this book: the school children and staff who inspired my work on this topic; Nancy Hale, my editor at Springer, who was interested in my work; my friends and concussion experts Sara Timms and Brenda Eagan Brown, who assisted in reviewing this manuscript; and my colleagues in the Department of Counselor Education and Human Services at the University of Dayton, who offered support and encouragement. Within that department, special thanks to Elana Bernstein—everyone should be so lucky as to have a friend like Elana at work—and to school psychology graduate students Amanda Prater, who jumped right in to help with this book on her first day of graduate school, and Maria Tedesco, who assisted with references and images. Special thanks and love to my parents, Fred and Becky Davies, who instilled in us a love for books, education, and children: My daughters fall asleep among a pile of books because of you. Most of all, thanks to my husband, Allen, and our six children, my sources of deepest joy and inspiration.