The Dairy Arts Center Boulder, CO
Dr. Kathryn Hardin
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing, University of Colorado; Certified Brain Injury Specialist Trainer
The Lookout— Traumatic Brain Injury
Program Description
Dr. Kathryn Hardin discussed traumatic head injury before the film and participated in a Q&A following the screening.
Presented At
The Dairy Arts Center Boulder, CO
Film Synopsis
Chris is a promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Chris (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), a star hockey player, has the world at his feet. Then a devastating car accident turns his life upside down. Suffering from a brain injury that leaves him with lasting mental impairments, including anterograde amnesia, he takes a job as a bank janitor and must write everything down in a small notepad to compensate for his inability to remember how to complete daily tasks. He soon becomes the target of an unscrupulous gang, who are planning a heist at the bank.
About the Speaker
Dr. Kathryn Hardin is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, at the University of Colorado and a certified brain injury specialist trainer. She is a speech-language pathologist specializing in traumatic brain injury assessment and rehabilitation. As a faculty member, Dr. Hardin has been working to increase TBI education and experiences in their clinical graduate training program. As a result, the CU Speech Department is the first graduate program in the country affiliated with the Brain Injury Association of America. In 2013, her concussion work at CU was selected at the Outstanding Clinical Program in the State of Colorado.