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ERIC Number: EJ726480
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Jun-22
Pages: 6
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ISSN: ISSN-1045-988X
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Behavioral Considerations Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury
Mayfield, Joan; Homack, Susan
Preventing School Failure, v49 n4 p17 Sum 2005
Children who sustain traumatic brain injury (TBI) can experience significant cognitive deficits. These deficits may significantly impair their functioning in the classroom, resulting in the need for academic and behavioral modifications. Behavior and social problems can be the direct or indirect result of brain injury. Difficulties in paying attention, staying on task, and predicting the consequences of actions may be associated with behavior problems (M. Ylvisaker, T. Feeney, & F. Szekeres, 1998). A neuropsychological evaluation provides information to parents and teachers about the extent of the child's cognitive deficits and explains cognitive strengths and weaknesses. When teachers are provided with this information, they are able to develop appropriate strategies to optimize the child's ability to learn and function in the classroom.
Heldref Publications, Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, 1319 Eighteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-1802. Web site: http://www.heldref.org.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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