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Thanks Janet, that is what I was trying to say. We all know what would be appropriate for kids with Tourette's (and Q) but the schools are just not always that advanced, and my experience is they put them in EBD classes. Also, about the medications... that is what I have read too and since many of the anti-psychotics are on his list of "not allowed to give medications", it wouldn't help in that sense.
It is absolutely right that they should have brain injury classes. Or at least resource teachers readily available. In the county any brain injury goes under Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). In the educational system, only external force injuries are under Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). oxygen deprivation, tumors, illnesses, any other after-birth brain injury is called an Acquired Brain Injury and does not meet criteria for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) services. Though as a brain injury professional, I have to say the differences are far fewer than the similarities. Workshops/professionals say that Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can cause global injury due to the pressures, etc.... that is true for the others in certain situations too. The nature of the damage can be very different, that is true. Ripping, shearing, twisting etc. in accidents. An argument is that it is life changing, the person's personality may change and emotional effects from being so different is a difference from ABI... well I taught a girl who was a twin, had a tumor and from chemo had a stroke too. She surely did remember she had been different and she could daily compare what she was like. The effects of the damage are what they are, individual and based on the areas of damage. A brain injury professional can work with any child who has a brain injury. There are many who are trying to change this law. It is nonsense.
So, his secondary ed. category is OHI with a letter from the doctor simply stating the Brain Injury diagnosis due to Cavernous Angioma.
SOOOO frustrating because that IS what would turn this around. That is why I bring my own brain injury expert to the table. They should, and that is so very frustrating.
IT is one of my agenda items for our IEP meeting tomorrow.
It is absolutely right that they should have brain injury classes. Or at least resource teachers readily available. In the county any brain injury goes under Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). In the educational system, only external force injuries are under Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). oxygen deprivation, tumors, illnesses, any other after-birth brain injury is called an Acquired Brain Injury and does not meet criteria for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) services. Though as a brain injury professional, I have to say the differences are far fewer than the similarities. Workshops/professionals say that Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) can cause global injury due to the pressures, etc.... that is true for the others in certain situations too. The nature of the damage can be very different, that is true. Ripping, shearing, twisting etc. in accidents. An argument is that it is life changing, the person's personality may change and emotional effects from being so different is a difference from ABI... well I taught a girl who was a twin, had a tumor and from chemo had a stroke too. She surely did remember she had been different and she could daily compare what she was like. The effects of the damage are what they are, individual and based on the areas of damage. A brain injury professional can work with any child who has a brain injury. There are many who are trying to change this law. It is nonsense.
So, his secondary ed. category is OHI with a letter from the doctor simply stating the Brain Injury diagnosis due to Cavernous Angioma.
SOOOO frustrating because that IS what would turn this around. That is why I bring my own brain injury expert to the table. They should, and that is so very frustrating.
IT is one of my agenda items for our IEP meeting tomorrow.