FRHD 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Traumatic Brain Injury, Deafblindness, Coloboma
13 Dec 2016
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Chapter 13: low incidence, multiple and severe exceptionalities. Injury to brain that did not occur at birth or not a degenerative disease, resulting in total/partial disability or psychosocial maladjustment that affects educational performance. Affect cognition, language, memory, attention, reasoning, abstract thinking, judgment, problem solving etc. Prevalence: alarming rate among children/youth, 0. 5% school aged children, 4% by end of high school, males are more prone than females, most likely at late adolescence, early adulthood > silent epidemic, increasing prevalence. Causes: under 5, accidental falls dominant cause, vehicular accidents and child abuse, after 5, vehicular accidents account for majority, assaults, gunshot wounds, closed= fall/abuse. Causes: genetic/chromosomal syndromes, 50 genetic/chromosomal syndrome, most common are charge, usher, Downcharge syndrome: number of physical anomalies that present at birth. Considerations for many students with low-incidence, multiple and severe. Aac is much slower than natural communication, 1/20 of typical rate= frustration users who are not literate must rely on vocabulary of others= limited.
