State of the States: Meeting the Educational Needs of Children with Traumatic Brain Injury

This report presents the results of a joint investigation by the Mount Sinai Brain Injury Research Center and the Brain Injury Association of America on the extent to which public schools across America are meeting the educational needs of children with TBI. The report describes why this is an important issue and provides an analysis of interviews conducted with state education agencies and brain injury consumer organizations about current practices in identifying, classifying, assessing and teaching children with brain injury. The report concludes with recommendations for public policy change.

Authors

Wayne A. Gordon, Ph.D., Jennifer Oswald, Susan Vaughn, M.Ed., Susan H. Connors, Margaret Brown, Ph.D.