FRHD 2110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Traumatic Brain Injury, Deafblindness, Augmentative

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2110
• Professor: Taniesha Burkes

Document Summary

Low incidence, multiple and severe exceptionalities are those that occur relatively infrequently and require extensive support in more than one major life activity, such as mobility, communication, self-care, independent living, employment, and self-suf ciency. Probably 1 percent or fewer of all learners have such low-incidence, multiple or severe exceptionalities. Traumatic brain injury (tbi) is injury to the brain resulting in total or partial disability or psychosocial maladjustment that affects educational performance. It may be the result of closed head injuries or open head injuries. It may affect cognition, language, memory, attention, reasoning, abstract thinking, judgement, problem solving, sensory or perceptual and motor disabilities, psychosocial behaviour, physical functions, information processing or speech, all of which are important in school. How is dead-blindness de ned, and what are the special educational problems it. Deaf-blindness if de ned by signi cant impairments in both hearing and seeing, although the individual may have some residual hearing or sight.