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Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic Brain Injury
photo by: rolands.lakis
State: Missouri State Board of Education

Definition

Traumatic Brain Injury means an acquired injury to the brain caused by an external  physical force, resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects a child'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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