What is traumatic brain injury?

  Damage to the brain via an external force, the skull may, or may not, be damaged.
  Force wear the skull is open.
  Trauma to the brain.

How does TBI place?

  Neurol connections are torn. (Repetivtive small damage can have a cumulative significant negative impact.)
  Brain bleeding destroys neurons.
  Trauma to the brain.
  Injury can continue to progress hours or days after the initial TBI.
  Someone hits you in the head.

What do the terms Mild, Moderate, Severe & Profound defines TBI?

  Damage to the brain via an external force, the skull may, or may not, be damaged.
  Brain bleeding destroys neurons.
  Terms refer to how long the person was unconscious.

How long would Moderate TBI experience?

  1 to 30 minutes
  35 minutes to 40 minutes
  40 minutes to an hour
  1 hour or more

How long would a Severe TBI experience?

  1 to 30 minutes
  35 minutes to 40 minutes
  40 minutes to an hour
  1 hour or more

How long would a Profound TBI experience?

  1 to 30 minutes
  35 minutes to 40 minutes
  40 minutes to an hour
  1 hour or more

What is the part of the brain that is most often damaged?

  Memory
  Frontal Lobe
  Attention
  Metacognition
  Executive Functioning

What are the functions most often changed?

  Cognitive - Memory and Concentration
  Metacognition- BET
  Physical - Fatigue, light/sound sensitivity and headaches
  Executive Functioning- 123
  Personality - Loose emotinal control, depression and anxiety

Is the person with TBI always aware of these changes?

  Yes - The damage has a huge detected change
  No - The damage can impact the brain ability to detect such changes
  Person's point of view they have not changed
  Person's point of view they have chaged alot

MAMAEA and the perception issues?

  Touch = non feeling
  Light and sound sensitivity = sunglasses and ear buds
  Taste = different tastes

MAMAEA and how it helps with attention?

  Set short specfic goals
  Sit closers
  Use timer and short sessions
  Take it home
  Minimize distractions

MAMAEA and the memory issues?

  Cognitive - Memory and Concentration
  Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
  Use memory aids: write things down mnemonics
  Long term memory may be impacted and knowledge and skills need to be retaught
  Short term memory is just fine
  Reduced working memory = use chunking, write tasks on the board
  Writing is an external memory aid

MAMAEA how it helps executive functioning and metacognition?

  Be the student's frontal lobe
  Frustration = switch student to an enjoyable task for a short time then return them to previous task
  Ask prompting questions
  Organization aides: folders and checklists
  Ask organizational and planning questions
  Teach student to set short goals with the time limit and self-monitor progress
  Establish specific routines
  Highly structured learning environments
  None of the above.

MAMAEA helps with socialization?

  Don't take behaviors perosnally
  Assit the student with becoming aware
  Remind student of classroom rules
  High stucture and predictablity - Student may not recongnize behaviors in order to control them
  Due to frontal lobe damage student may have difficulty with executive funtioning
  None of the above
  Student should know the rules and follow them
  Tell them to shut up