This book gives a basic overview of the consequences that brain injuries can have on a student’s learning and behavior. It sorts out myths from facts, explains common changes at home and in school, and gives strategies for the classroom.
There are detailed worksheets to transfer information as the student moves from teacher to teacher, grade to grade and school to school. This manual has outsold all of our other books due to its clear, practical and useful approach. This is a must have book for educators and families.
Learning and Cognitive Communicative Challenges:
Developing educational programs for students with brain injuries
By Roberta DePompei and Janet Tyler ~ 2004
This manual details classroom behaviors cause by changes in attention, processing speed, short-term memory, long-term memory, organization, problem solving, impulsivity, expressive language, receptive language, pragmatic language, and executive functioning.
Chapters Address:
· Cognitive-communicative challenges
· Effect of cognitive-communicative challenges on learning and behavior in the classroom
· Treatment of cognitive-communicative strengths and needs using an integrative approach
· Assessing teaching strategies
It gives educational strategies for helping the student with language demands of English and Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Science.
Strategies for Managing Challenging Behaviors
of Students with Brain Injuries
By Stephen Bruce, Lisa Selznick Gurdin and Ron Savage ~ 2006
Here’s the manual that educators and therapists have been looking for on challenging behavior after brain injury. Taking a methodical approach to using applied behavior analysis in rehabilitation programs and the classroom, it covers...
· Relationships between the brain and behavior
· Common behaviors after brain injury
· Overview of the behavioral approach
· Identification and definitions of behavior
· Methods for observing and recording behavior
· Types of behavioral assessment
· Practical strategies for changing behavior
· Manipulating antecedents
· Providing positive consequences
· Case studies and glossary
Changes in behavior and learning are often the most challenging deficits to manage following a brain injury. This manual offers practical ways to successfully improve challenging behaviors, to promote effective learning strategies, and to teach functional skills at home, in school, and in the community.
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