Download Traumatic Brain Injury - Lecture Notes | SED 101.00 and more Study notes School management&administration in PDF only on Docsity! Chapter 5: Traumatic Brain Injury Traumatic Brain Injury: an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment or both that adversely effects a child’s education performance. Types of Brain Injury Closed Head Injury: results when the brain whips back and forth during an accident, causing it to bounce off the inside of the skull. It does not involve penetration or a fracture of the bone of the skull. Open Head Injury: penetrates the bones of the skull, allowing bacteria to have contact with the brain and potentially impairing specific functions, usually only those controlled by the injured part of the brain. Does not include: -Congenital -Infectious -degenerative -birth trauma Causes: -Falls -Child abuse, abuse shaken baby syndrome -Automobile accident -Sports & Recreational Injury -Firearms (2/3 suicide attempts) Symptoms: -Visual -Balance -Memory -Sleepiness -Headaches -Different Size Pupils Characteristics: differ in onset, complexity, and recovery -Physical -Cognitive -Linguistics/Communication -Emotional -Social Determining the Presence -Observation -Parents -Physicians -Teachers -Screening -Assessment Measures -Scanning instruments -Neurological exam -Coma scale -Pre-referral -Referral -Non-Discrimitory Evaluation Procedures (NDE) -Determination Designing an IEP -Partnership -Supplementary Aids & Services -Universal Design for Learning: trying to make curriculum to all students Assessing Progress -Analytic Rubrics -Multiple choice versus essay -Extended time -Frequent breaks Chapter 6: Physical Disabilities & Other Health Impairments Physical Disability: a severe orthopedic impairment that adversely affects a child’s education performance Muscular Dystrophy: hereditary muscle destroying disorder that results in progressive muscle weakness Most Common: -Duchenne dystrophy Causes: -Prenatal -Genetic Disorder Characteristics: -Progressive -Balance & Coordination -Mobility Spinal Bifida: Malformation of the spinal cord, not just progressive Types: -Spinal Bifida Occulta -Meningocele -Mgelomoningocele Causes: -Prenatal Characteristics: -Mobility -Hydrocephalus -Bladder & Bowl Control -Possible Intellectual Disabilities Cerebral Palsy: a disorder of movement, balance or posture due to damage in the brain that affects voluntary muscles; not progressive Types: -Spastic: involves tightness in one or more muscle groups -Athetoid: involves abrupt, involuntary movements of the head, neck, face, and extremities. -Ataxic: refers to the inability to coordinate voluntary muscular movements. Causes: -Prenatal -Perinatal -Postnatal Characteristics: -Mobility -Speech/Language problems -Visions Impairments -Seizures Other Health Impairments Other Health Impairments: having limited strength, vitality or alertness, including a heighted alertness to environmental stimuli. Adversely affects a child’s educational performance. Chronic: develops slowly and has long-lasting symptoms Acute: develop quickly with intense symptom that last a relatively short period of time
