Common Classroom Issues of Students with TBI

Students with a traumatic brain injury can experience a wide range of challenges in school.

Common difficulties can include:

• Attention
• Memory
• Reasoning and problem solving
• Word-retrieval difficulties
• Hyper-verbal speech
• Confabulation usually results from misperceiving the world and making incorrect interpretations rather than purposeful lying.
• Expressive speech or language problems
  • Discourse ability (speaking on a topic)
  • Tangential speech or difficulty maintaining a topic of conversation
• Receptive language problems
• Sexually demonstrative behavior
• Inflexibility, impulsivity or difficulty organizing thinking
• Difficulty processing complex information
• Learning new information
• Inefficient retrieval or storage of information
• Problem solving or judgment difficulties