Traumatic Brain Injury: Definitions and Types, Quizzes of School management&administration

Download Traumatic Brain Injury: Definitions and Types and more Quizzes School management&administration in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Traumatic Brain Injury DEFINITION 1 TBI IS brain damage that is acquired by trauma after a perios of normal neurological development. TBI can result from 2 categories of injury: open or closed head injury. TERM 2 Open Head Injury DEFINITION 2 A brain injury in which there is an open wound in the head, such as a gunshot wound or penetration of the head by an object, resulting in damage to brain tissue. TERM 3 Closed Head injury DEFINITION 3 Damage to the brain that occuts without penetration of the skull; might be caused by a blow to the head or violent shaking by an adult. TERM 4 Motor-speech-disorder DEFINITION 4 loss or impairment of the ability to understand or formulate language because of accident or illness. TERM 5 Behavior modification DEFINITION 5 Systematic control of environmental events, especially of consequences, to produce specific changes in observable responses. May include