Preventative Measures
Www.equipforequality.org
Organizations such as The Perspectives
Network advocate for greater community
awareness about the issue of TBI.
Parents should promote the use of safety
equipment, particularly protective helmets
when their child is participating in any
risky activity.
Children should be taught appropriate pe-
destrian safety rules. Children should be
vigilant at crosswalks and areas involving
traffic.
Teachers and coaches should promote safe
behavior and TBI awareness to students
within their care.
Sources Of Further Information Traumatic Brain Injury
Mary-Beth, Jenna, Josh & Andy
Equip for equality promote the rights of people with trau-
matic brain injury through free advocacy assistance, edu-
cation and outreach to build TBI community rights aware-
ness and support.
Www.tbi.org
The Perspectives Network, Inc.'s primary focus is positive
communication between persons with brain injury, family
members/ caregivers/friends of persons with brain in-
jury, those many professionals who treat persons with
brain injury and community members in order to create
positive changes and enhance public awareness and
knowledge of acquired/traumatic brain injury.
It is important to understand the effect of a stu-
dent’s ability to function when learning is not
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minute presentation about Traumatic Brain Injury.
Definitions
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can be defined
as: Any traumatically induced physiological
disruption of brain function.
TBI may present itself in the following:
 Any period of loss of consciousness.
 Any loss of memory surrounding the
incident.
 Feelings of disorientation at the time of
the incident.
 Loss of brain activity.
Prevalence
1.7 million new cases of TBI are reported
every year
0.4% of students with disabilities within the
school system are diagnosed with TBI.
Living With Traumatic Brain Injury
 Problems with attention & concentration.
 Perception issues
 Problems with remembering things
 Speech & language difficulties
 Difficulty in anticipating outcomes and
adapting to changing situations.
 Lack of an ability to form concepts and
think abstractly.
Case Study—Raymond
Raymond was struck by a car at age 12 while
riding his bike. Raymond received a TBI from
this accident, and was permanently paralyzed.
He has lost his ability to
control some behavioral
tendencies. During
stressful mental proc-
ess, Raymond will laugh
out loud. This behavior
even occurs at inappro
TBI—Strategies
Processing of information is problematic
for TBI sufferers. Information must be pre-
sented in a variety of ways.
Students may need more time to complete
tasks. Limiting distractions can be a suc-
cessful strategy.
Study guides, review sheets, simplified
questioning, providing accommodations can
all lead to greater success for students
with TBI.
Be cognizant of low motivation and provide
positive feedback whenever appropriate.
Sports-Related TBI
Nearly 300.000 sports related TBI’s occur
in the US each year. Most commonly these
occur in sports such as football, hockey and
boxing. Basketball, hockey and skate board-
ing are also particularly risky.
Approximately 21% of
TBI incidents in under 18
year olds are sports
related.