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Direct linkGriffiths, Gina G. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Adults with mild to moderate acquired brain injury (ABI) often pursue post-secondary or professional education after their injuries in order to enter or re-enter the job market. An increasing number of these adults report problems with reading-to-learn. The problem is particularly concerning given the growing population of adult survivors of ABI.…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Neurological Impairments, Postsecondary Education, Reading Difficulties
Taylor, Kathy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
One of the primary reasons many college students with disabilities, and more specifically college student veterans with disabilities, do not seek support services is due to the stigma associated with disability, especially cognitive and mental health disabilities. The purpose of the present study was to explore how public university faculty in the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, College Students, Veterans Education, Social Bias
Peer reviewedKopkalli-Yavuz, Handan; Mavis, Ilknur; Akyildiz, Didem – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
Studies investigating voicing onset time (VOT) production by speakers with aphasia have shown that nonfluent aphasics show a deficit in the articulatory programming of speech sounds based on the range of VOT values produced by aphasic individuals. If the VOT value lies between the normal range of VOT for the voiced and voiceless categories, then…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Aphasia, Patients, Foreign Countries
Brenner, Lisa A.; Betthauser, Lisa M.; Homaifar, Beeta Y.; Villarreal, Edgar; Harwood, Jeri E. F.; Staves, Pamela J.; Huggins, Joseph A. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2011
History of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been found to increase risk of suicidal behavior. The association between suicide attempt history among veterans with PTSD and/or TBI was explored. Cases (N = 81) and 2:1 matched controls (N = 160) were randomly selected from a Veterans Affairs Medical Center…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Mental Health Programs, Suicide, Brain
Gray, Kurt; Knickman, T. Anne; Wegner, Daniel M. – Cognition, 2011
Patients in persistent vegetative state (PVS) may be biologically alive, but these experiments indicate that people see PVS as a state curiously more dead than dead. Experiment 1 found that PVS patients were perceived to have less mental capacity than the dead. Experiment 2 explained this effect as an outgrowth of afterlife beliefs, and the…
Descriptors: Hospices (Terminal Care), Cognitive Ability, Brain, Death
Flynn, Perry; Lundgren, Kristine; Mankoff, Lyn; Johnson, Leslie – Exceptional Parent, 2011
Cognitive impairments resulting from traumatic brain injury (TBI) are often long-lasting and difficult to remediate. These include problems with thinking, memory, reasoning, expressing and understanding emotion, social communication and social appropriateness. Survivors are often limited in their ability to return to a previous level of…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Graduate Students, Head Injuries, Brain
Johnson, L. Syd M. – Journal of School Health, 2012
Background: High school football players are the single largest cohort of athletes playing tackle football, and account for the majority of sport-related concussions. Return to play guidelines (RTPs) have emerged as the preferred approach for addressing the problem of sport-related concussion in youth athletes. Methods: This article reviews…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Team Sports, High School Students, Athletes
Byom, Lindsey J.; Turkstra, Lyn – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2012
Background: A requisite skill for successful conversation is the ability to adjust one's language according to contextual factors. Aims: This study examined one aspect of language use in context--the use of mental-state terms, i.e. words that communicate thoughts, beliefs or feelings--in conversations between adult males with and without traumatic…
Descriptors: Brain, Intimacy, Speech Communication, Theory of Mind
Degeneffe, Charles Edmund; Tucker, Mark – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2012
Objective: to examine the perspectives of brain injury professionals concerning family members' feelings about the quality of life experienced by individuals with brain injuries. Participants: participating in the study were 28 individuals in leadership positions with the state affiliates of the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA). Methods:…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Leadership, Neurological Impairments, Brain
Friedman, Joshua; Reed, Peter; Sharplin, Peter; Kelly, Patrick – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
Objectives: To obtain comprehensive, reliable data on the direct cost of pediatric abusive head trauma in New Zealand, and to use this data to evaluate the possible cost-benefit of a national primary prevention program. Methods: A 5 year cohort of infants with abusive head trauma admitted to hospital in Auckland, New Zealand was reviewed. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Abuse, Head Injuries, Cost Effectiveness
Aldrich, Erin M.; Obrzut, John E. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2012
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children and adolescents can significantly affect their lives and educational needs. Deficits are often exhibited in areas such as attention, concentration, memory, executive function, emotional regulation, and behavioral functioning, but specific outcomes are not particular to any one child or adolescent with a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Brain, Head Injuries, Educational Needs
Download full textChilders, Carrie; Hux, Karen – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2016
This qualitative study explored the college life phenomenon as experienced by students with mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). Previous research about such students has focused on topics including study strategy use, access of support services, and insights from caregivers or instructors. However, little attention has been paid to the perceptions…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Brain, College Students, Special Needs Students
Brady, Don; Brady, Flo – Communique, 2011
Sport-related concussions (SRC) are not limited to specific age ranges, professional athletes, or gender. The primary focus of much of SRC research pertains to the assessment, management, and return to play (RTP) of the concussed athlete. This article highlights some major issues of SRC along with some controversies that presently exist within the…
Descriptors: Athletes, Sports Medicine, Head Injuries, Brain
Brooks, Brian L.; Holdnack, James A.; Iverson, Grant L. – Assessment, 2011
Clinicians can use the base rates of low scores in healthy people to reduce the likelihood of misdiagnosing cognitive impairment. In the present study, base rates were developed for the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV) and Wechsler Memory Scale-Fourth Edition (WMS-IV) using 900 healthy adults and validated on 28 patients…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Incidence, Head Injuries, Patients
McKee, Ann C.; Stein, Thor D.; Nowinski, Christopher J.; Stern, Robert A.; Daneshvar, Daniel H.; Alvarez, Victor E.; Lee, Hyo-Soon; Hall, Garth; Wojtowicz, Sydney M.; Baugh, Christine M.; Riley, David O.; Kubilus, Caroline A.; Cormier, Kerry A.; Jacobs, Matthew A.; Martin, Brett R.; Abraham, Carmela R.; Ikezu, Tsuneya; Reichard, Robert Ross; Wolozin, Benjamin L.; Budson, Andrew E.; Goldstein, Lee E.; Kowall, Neil W.; Cantu, Robert C. – Brain, 2013
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a progressive tauopathy that occurs as a consequence of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury. We analysed post-mortem brains obtained from a cohort of 85 subjects with histories of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury and found evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in 68 subjects: all males, ranging…
Descriptors: Neurological Impairments, Head Injuries, Chronic Illness, Brain
