A Traumatic Brain Injury is an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external force, resulting in total or partial functioning disability or psychosocail impariment, or both, that adversely affects a stundent's educational performance.
The term applies to open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in on or more of the following:
1. Congnition
2. Language
3. Memory
4. Attention
5. Abstract Thinking
6. Reasoning
7. Judgment
8. Problem - Solving
9. Sensory
10. Perceptual and motor abilities
11. Psychoscail Behaviors
12. Physical Functioning
13. Information Processing
14. Speech
The term does not apply to brain injuries that are congenital or degenerative, or brain injuries by birth trauma.
Serving Students from:
- Cloverdale Community School
- Eminence Community School
- Mill Creek Community School
- North Putnam Community School
- South Putnam Community School
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February 12, 2010
