Talking with Parents when a Student has a Brain Injury

Talking with Parents when a Student has a Brain Injury

Linda Robinson
Brain injury tip card for schools helps educators and teachers communicate with parents. Describes perspectives, needs and priorities of parents after their child has a brain injury.
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Gives tips to help school staff communicate effectively with parents as partners rather than adversaries. Suggests how to involve parents in the IEP process. Gives strategies for resolving conflicts between parents and teachers and handling emotional confrontations while discussing the effects of a student's brain injury on learning, social skills and academic performance. 

Details
Item TALK
Pages 6
Year 1999

Contents

This tip card helps parents, educators and school staff...
  • understand parents’ perspective, needs and priorities
  • communicate effectively as partners rather than adversaries
A Parent’s View

Interrupted Maturation

Family Assessment

Learning Curves

IEP meetings
  • Tips for helping parents with the IEP
Parent Teacher Conflicts
  • Frustration and Anger
  • Tips for communicating when a parent is angry
Timelines

Development, personality or brain injury?

Parent expectations too high?

Constraints on teaching
  • Tips for championing the child
Conclusion

References

Excerpts

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No one wants a child to become independent and self-sufficient more than the parents. At best, brain injury interrupts that process; at worst, it threatens to stop or seriously delay it.

When a school-aged child is seriously injured, the school often keeps in close contact with the family as they worry together about the child’s survival. But once the student is medically stable and returns home or moves on to rehabilitation, school staff and friends often assume that things are returning to normal.

Recovery and rehabilitation from a brain injury is a long and uncertain process. Many people associate brain injury with coma, severe physical disabilities, and difficulty communicating. Actually, the physical recovery of many children with brain injuries is so rapid that it seems like a miracle.

The student with a brain injury may appear to be no different than before the accident. Except now, this student is not as quick, gets angry more easily, and doesn’t seem to ever have the right thing in the right place at the right time.

Parents notice their child now gets easily frustrated, can’t remember things, is more disorganized, more moody, and gets upset more easily. School work that used to be easy is now harder and takes longer. “Are these changes temporary or permanent?” is the question that worries many parents.

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