Using Technology to Enhance Learning for Students with Traumatic Brain Injuries

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can significantly affect academic performance in a wide range of areas including, working memory, language processing, attention, and internalizing and externalizing behaviors. This chapter will discuss characteristics associated with TBI, and provide a series of high- and low-tech strategies teachers can implement in their classrooms to help students who have experienced brain trauma to succeed through academic challenges. In addition, the benefits and weaknesses of certain technologies used by students with TBI in school and at home will be discussed.

Citation

Wherfel, Q.M. and Bakken, J.P. (2023), "Using Technology to Enhance Learning for Students with Traumatic Brain Injuries", Bakken, J.P. and Obiakor, F.E. (Ed.) Using Technology to Enhance Special Education (Advances in Special Education, Vol. 37), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 143-158. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0270-401320230000037009