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Publication Date: 2020-Jul
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Describing the Composition of Individualized Education Plans for Students with Traumatic Brain Injury
Harvey, Judy; Farquharson, Kelly; Schneider-Cline, Whitney; Bush, Erin; Pelatti, Christina Yeager
Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, v51 n3 p839-851 Jul 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the features of Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) for a cohort of students with traumatic brain injury (TBI) to help elucidate current special education practices for students with TBI. Method: We obtained permission from administrators of a local school district of 41,000 students in a Midwestern state to review de-identified IEP records of students verified with TBI. We examined demographic information (i.e., cause and age at time of injury), IEP services and intensity, IEP goal categories, and previous verification status. Results: Descriptive results support that intervention services were more intense for students with TBI with greater lengths of time postinjury. Target behaviors within goals were more often related to math and reading than to the cognitive processes that govern these skills, such as attention, memory, and executive functioning. Finally, more than a third of our sample had been verified with a disability and were receiving special education services via an IEP prior to their TBI. Conclusions: This work represents an important first step in understanding the special education services for students with TBI. Future research should explore interventions that are ecologically valid for school-based settings and are developed to address the idiosyncratic deficits of students with TBI, particularly interventions that focus on the underlying cognitive processes experienced by these students.
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Neurological Impairments, Individualized Education Programs, Students with Disabilities, Special Education, Student Characteristics, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Age Differences, Related Services (Special Education), School Districts, Instructional Program Divisions, Intervention
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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