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When Your Child has a Brain Injury
By Marilyn Lash ~ 1998
Myth... Physical recovery is a sign that the brain has healed.
Fact... Cognitive recovery is different than physical recovery.
Cognition is a term experts use to describe the “thinking” skills or abilities like reasoning, memory and attention. Changes in learning, memory and behavior are the most common long-term effects of brain injuries among youth. It is harder for people to understand that a child who looks “okay” physically may still have a disability.
Recovery of physical abilities like walking and speaking does not mean that the brain has healed. Broken bones and cuts heal with the growth of new skin and bone, but the brain does not grow new neurons or brain cells.
Myth... A brain injury heals with time.
Fact... It takes longer for all the effects of a brain injury to show up in children.
The brain of a child still is developing through adolescence. All the effects of a brain injury may not be known right away. Children are more active, school work becomes more complex, and responsibilities increase over time. The brain of a growing child is steadily challenged to do more complex thinking, communication and learning.
Over time, new difficulties may appear that are directly related to the brain injury. It is harder for people to connect an earlier brain injury with later difficulties with behavior and learning. For the child who has a brain injury, time reveals instead of heals.
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