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Download full textAmerican Council on Education, Washington, DC. HEATH Resource Center. – 1989
Community colleges, four-year colleges, and other training programs have developed special services for head injury survivors. The need for these services is explained using statistics from the National Head Injury Foundation, and head injury is defined. The person with head injury may experience impairment in such functions as memory,…
Descriptors: College Programs, Head Injuries, Higher Education, Neurological Impairments
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Special Education Services Unit. – 1991
This paper on traumatic brain injuries begins with statistics on the incidence of the disorder, especially as they relate to Colorado. Traumatic brain injury is then defined, and problems caused by traumatic brain injury are discussed. The components of effective programming for students with traumatic brain injuries are described, followed by the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Head Injuries
Katz, Shlomo, Ed.; Florian, Victor, Ed. – 1990
This monograph describes community rehabilitation services available to persons with traumatic brain injury in Israel. Following a foreword by Leonard Diller which cites the incidence of traumatic brain injury and notes existing intervention models, an introductory chapter by Shlomo Katz and Victor Florian provides a historical survey of the…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHux, Karen; Hacksley, Carolyn – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1996
A case study is used to demonstrate the effects of mild traumatic brain injury on educational efforts. Discussion covers factors complicating school reintegration, ways to facilitate school reintegration, identification of cognitive and behavioral consequences, minimization of educators' discomfort, reintegration program design, and family…
Descriptors: Adventitious Impairments, Case Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship
Direct linkDriver, Simon; Kelly, Luke – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2005
The number of people who experience a brain injury increases every year, and 40 percent of all cases involve children (Hill, 1999). In fact, this high rate has led brain injury to become the most commonly acquired disability among children (Bigge, Best, & Heller, 2001), leading to a variety of primary disabilities that affect cognition,…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Physical Education, Students, Aquatic Sports
Peer reviewedAbbot, Nan; Wilkinson, Laurie – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1992
This case study describes the development of a model peer support program during the school reintegration of an adolescent girl who sustained a traumatic brain injury. A series of meetings was held with the girl's social network to provide information, guidance, acknowledgement of friends' feelings, interventions for behavior problems, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Counseling Techniques, Friendship
Thomas, Dale F.; Menz, Fredrick E. – 1990
The final report of the Head Injury Re-entry Project (Project HIRe) describes activities of this 3-year (1987 to 1990) project, which used a "best practices" model approach and a community-based employment strategy with persons having traumatic brain injury (TBI) in nonurban areas. Among 15 project accomplishments are the following: (1)…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Employment Potential
