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Traumatic Brain Injury
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Traumatic brain injury means an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability, psychosocial impairment, or both that adversely affects a student’s educational performance.
The term includes open or closed head injuries resulting in impairments in one or more areas, such as, cognition, language, memory, attention, reasoning, abstract thinking, judgment, problem solving, sensory, perceptual and motor abilities, psychological behavior, physical functions, information processing, and speech. The term does not include brain injuries that are congenital or degenerative or to brain injuries induced by birth trauma.
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Read about the specific criteria used to determine eligibility in the educational category of traumatic brain injury.
Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education – Criteria for Eligibility in the Educational Category of Traumatic Brain Injury
A student has a traumatic brain injury when:
- A traumatic brain injury/head injury has been diagnosed by a licensed physician or through a neuropsychological assessment, and
- The student's educational performance is adversely affected by deficits in acquisition, retention, and/or generalization of skills. Students with a brain injury may have rapidly changing profiles, therefore, educational assessment should include current documentation of the student's functional capabilities and indicate deficits in one or more of the following areas:
A) Building or maintaining social competence;
B) Performance of functional daily living skills across settings;
C) The ability to acquire and retain new skills; and,
D) The ability to retrieve prior information.
PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT: A student may also be deemed eligible if the student displays characteristics of traumatic brain injury even though a medical diagnosis of head injury has not been made by a physician. In such cases, substantial data to document the medical basis for a head injury must be present in the evaluation report.
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Other local, state and national resources related to traumatic brain injury
Local Resources
- Brain Injury Association of Missouri
- Bridges Community Support Services
- Center for Head Injury Services
- Epilepsy Foundation Missouri & Kansas
- Paraquad
State Resources
- The Brain Injury Guide and Resources (University of Missouri)
- Missouri Brain Injury Advisory Council
National Resources
