Characteristics of a Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic Brain Injury is a condition caused by a head injury that results in lasting damage to the brain. This injury disrupts normal brain functioning and may permanently impact how a person acts, moves, and/or thinks.

Traumatic brain injury is one of the categories of disability specified in IDEA. This means that a child with traumatic brain injury may be eligible for special education and related services if it adversely affects their education.

A traumatic brain injury often impacts functioning in the following areas:
Memory and cognition, social skills, emotional regulation, attention, behavior, speech and language, and physical health.

Provides further description of the characteristics of a student with a traumatic brain injury:

http://do2learn.com/disabilities/CharacteristicsAndStrategies/TraumaticBrainInjury_Characteristics.html

Definition, characteristics, and impact on learning:

http://www.projectidealonline.org/v/traumatic-brain-injury/