Traumatic Brain Injury

What is the leading cause of TBI?

• Car crashes

• Assault

• Falling

• Sports injuries

TBI is more common among....

• Males

• Females

What are good instructional strategy for helping students with TBI? (Select ALL that apply)

• Long lecture style lessons

• Taking frequent breaks

• Provide repetition and consistency

• Use abstract language

What age range(s) of people are most effected by falling leading to TBI? (Select all that apply)

• Age 0-4

• Age 6-12

• Aged 75 and older

• Teenage boys

How many people per year are affected by traumatic brain injuries?

• 500,000

• 3 Million

• 1.5 million

• About 2,500

Student's with TBI many suffer cognitively, but are typically unaffected socially.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Why are students with TBI often isolated from their peers?

• Can be insensitive to other's emotions

• Have inappropriate responses to their environment

• Difficulty restricting socially inappropriate behaviors

• All of the above

How did Traumatic Brain Injury originally gain attention and funding?

• Children falling at school

• Soldiers being injured in wars

• Football players (and other athletes)

• Child abuse cases

What made the situation with Aaron Hernandez a landmark case?

• He was a football player with TBI

• He had many aggressive behaviors

• He murdered a person and it could have been connected to his TBI

• A documentary on Netflix about him

How does Co:writer help students with TBI?

• It writes essays for them

• It has a speech to text application

• Helps predict words + expand their vocabulary

• It has pictures that they can choose and it will speak the word or phrase for them