Welcome to the Classroom!

This room includes information geared toward helping your students with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) to achieve academic and personal success. Educational assessment and planning for students with TBI can pose a real challenge for any team. However, we will review principles that allow for successful selection and implementation of teaching techniques and support strategies. By clicking on the links in the order presented below, you will learn first about how to select a strategy or technique, followed by specific interventions and case studies illustrating problems commonly faced by students with TBI.

• The dry erase board - "What is Hypothesis Testing?"- Click here to learn about Ongoing, Collaborative, Contextualized Hypothesis-Testing Assessment (OCCHTA), a process that allows an educational team to find the source of a student’s difficulties and to formulate an effective plan for supporting the child. Several interactive case studies are included that illustrate how OCCHTA can be used to assess and develop supports for students with TBI.
  
  
• The teacher - General Teaching Strategies - Click here to explore considerations for formalized testing and to learn about several effective techniques for teaching children with disabilities.
  
  
• The students - Attention, Organization, Memory, Behavior - Each student in the classroom represents four typical areas of impairment after brain injury. Clicking on them will reveal interventions to address such impairments; case studies further demonstrate the selection and implementation of appropriate strategies.