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Understanding Students with Traumatic Brain Injury

Understanding Students with Traumatic Brain Injury. Chapter 13. TBI. Traumatic Brain Injury. Definition.

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Understanding Students with Traumatic Brain Injury

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  1. Understanding Students with Traumatic Brain Injury Chapter 13

  2. TBI Traumatic Brain Injury

  3. Definition • An acquired brain injury caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both that adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term applies to open or closed head injuries.

  4. Open Head Injury • Penetrates the bones of the skull, allowing bacteria to have contact with the brain • Impairs specific functions, usually only those controlled by the injured part of the brain

  5. Closed Head Injury • External blow or from the brain being whipped back and forth rapidly, causing it to rub against and bounce off the rough, jagged interior of the skull

  6. Causes of TBI? • A blow to the head • A motor vehicle accident • Being struck by a flying object • A bike or skiing or sledding accident • Physical abuse • Sports injury • Gun shot • Shaken baby syndrome

  7. Changes • Depends on the area of the brain that was injured • Forgetting-Memory • Slowed performance • Reading, writing, math • Organization • Physical and psychological • Interpersonal relationships • Impulsive • Communication • Behavioral

  8. Determining the Presence of TBI • Computerized tomography - CT • Computerized axial tomography - CAT • Magnetic resonance imaging • Functional magnetic resonance imaging • Positron emission tomography

  9. Prevalence • CDC estimate 100 out of every 100,000 people every year suffer TBI • 52,000 die each year • 2.5 to 6.5 million people have survived TBI

  10. Cost of TBI • TBI in US = $48.3 billion a year • $31.7 billion in hospitalization • $16.6 billion associated with fatalities • $10 billion for acute care

  11. Hospital to School • Involve educators during the hospital stay • Keep school personnel updated on student’s medical progress • Make the time for homebound instruction as short as possible • Frequently monitor the student’s progress after reentry • Assign someone to be the point person for coordinating the transition

  12. Back to school • Accommodate • Meet with nurse • Teacher • Administrators • Develop • IEP • Assessments • Team

  13. Accommodations • Testing • Give more time • Different styles • Classroom • Seating • Keeps records of student • Repetitions-Routines

  14. Learning Strategies • Memory • Flash Cards • Routine • Familiar surroundings • Academic • Have some one help him (tutor) • Repetition • Behavioral • Anger management • Problem solving

  15. More… • Types • Woodcock-Johnson-III • Tests of Achievement • WISC-III • Measures IQ • Vocabulary • Comprehension • TONI-3 • Nonverbal

  16. More… • Woodcock-Johnson-III • Letter-word identification • Reading • Story Recall • Understanding Directions • Spelling, Writing • Math • Compression

  17. Resources • http://www.safekids.org/ • http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/brainfit.html • http://www.biausa.org/Pages/biam2003/imbrainy.html

  18. Activity • In group • Read poems • Notice back side of paper • Put names of all members present • Answer the two questions

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