Meeting the Needs of Students with a Traumatic Brain Injury Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are a leading cause of death and disability among children and adolescents‚ with an annual incidence estimated at 180 cases per 100‚000 children between the ages of 1 and 15 in the United States (Yeates‚2005).Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are defined in the special education law in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 1990) as being an “injury to the brain caused by an external physical force
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care‚ such as those who have suffered from a traumatic brain injury‚ often must undergo painstaking lifestyle changes to accommodate this care. These changes‚ combined with changing family roles‚ can drastically change the dynamics of family relationships. This is an important detail for nursing teams to keep in mind while caring for families in such situations. According to the study‚ “Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability across all age groups in the United States
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Dementia awareness -CU238P What is dementia? Dementia is a gradual loss of brain functions. The most common form of dementia is caused by Alzheimer’s disease but there are many other forms of dementia including: alcohol related dememtias‚vascular dementia‚ frontotemporal dementias and Lewy body dementia. Key functions of the brain that are affected by dementia. Each case of dementia is different. The area of the brain affected will depend on the type of dementia. Dementia can affect every area
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Needs Students: I.e. Autism and other Severe Disabilities Timothy E. Jackson SPE -226 Educating the Exceptional Learner February 23‚ 2011 Professor Rebekah McCarthy This essay is entitled Educating Special Needs Students‚ the author will discuss and several important issues‚ which will be the following; the defining of Mental Retardation a term the author despises‚ Autism‚ Severe Disabilities and Multiple Disabilities‚ also their causes‚ and the impact of these disabilities have on the education
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Traumatic Brain Injury: Practices and Services for Support Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has often been referred to as the silent epidemic. Many of the signs and symptoms of the injury often go unnoticed and often take months or years to appear. TBI as define by IDEA and Broward County is described as: A traumatic brain injury means an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment
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world bring‚ some horrific injuries occur due to the competiveness of each participant. The human body can only take so much‚ and seems like a big target when competition is involved between two or more teams. An injury that has evolved the most out of all the injuries that can occur to someone is the concussion. According to the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and the National Collegiate Athletic Association‚ concussions in athletes is becoming the most common injury found compared to some other
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could be a physical cause for mental disorders. Soon Sigmund Freud came along and he and his followers showed that mental illness can be a function of environmental factors. But even after these alternative ways of viewing and understanding mental illness‚ along with the new scientific advances‚ the general public at this time period in the early 1900’s still had no real
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accident could have a lot of traumatic consequences‚ both physically and emotionally. Within seconds‚ your life can change forever. Being involved in such a devastating situation is not good enough‚ but sadly‚ there are concerns to tend to after things cool down. There are many types of injuries you could sustain from a car accident. In a few fortunate instances‚ nothing really happens aside from a few scrapes as well as a big scare‚ but other less fortunate accidents have severe repercussions. The most
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Mild Mental Retardation Speech and Language Disorders Introduction: Mild mental retardation is a lifelong disability that limits both the intellectual function and the adaptive behavior during the period of development. It first appears in children under the age of 18 and occurs in 2.5-3% of the population. There are a number of factors that cause mental retardation and most of the causes are chromosomal‚ metabolic and environmental. Symptoms appear once the child is born and later in childhood
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Autism A Developmental Disability Autism is a disability that affects social development in the brain‚ and has been rising in the past years. There are many different variations of autism‚ ranging in severity. Because of the many negative effects of autism‚ and how fast it’s spreading‚ it’s probably a good idea to devote more effort to treating it. Autism comes from the greek word autos‚ and is a mental condition that hinders the development of social skills. This condition now affects 1 in 68
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