Have you talked to people at the Ohio Head Injury Association? Don't
know of email, but phone is: (614) 481-7100
or (in state) (800) 686-9563
If "local" rules/practices vary and are fixed, Ohio group should be
better source than others, but maybe for comparison you might want to
check with BIANY (Brain Injury Association of NY state):
(518) 459-7911
For benefit of any readers calling within NY: (800) 228-8201.
Head trauma often involves some anoxia, neuroimmunological reactions to
trauma and anoxia are the same, and at my hospital anoxic patients are
admitted to the head injury unit--but I'm not sure logic is relevant to
"officials", so see what you can learn from various state groups.
Frank LeFever
New York Neuropsychology Group
In <zaborowski.3.30.32FE4717 at osu.edu> zaborowski.3 at osu.edu (Michael
Zaborowski) writes:
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>>Subject: Re: Anoxic Insult is not a Traumatic Brain Injury -- HELP
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>>>>>lambs at home.msen.com>>>Michael Z wrote:
>>> The state of Ohio has a SpEd category of TBI. Yet we are being told
an
>>anoxic
>>> brain injury is not a traumatic brain injury. Our Nuero and
physicians
>>cannot
>>> believe anoxia is being excluded; same range of potential symptoms,
and
>>same
>>> range of rehab concepts.
>>>>Your daughter qualifies for SpEd under a variety of disability areas,
>>specifically Learning Disabled (LD) and Physically or Otherwise
Health
>>Impaired (POHI).
>>>It shouldn't make any difference that she cannot be certified TBI.
Get her
>>into the system, then construct the IEP (individual educational plan)
to
>>address her needs. My suggestion is that she be certified POHI,
something
>>IT DOES MATTER
>>We are both special education teachers. By being TBI, she can move to
the
>program that best meets her needs as they change, which is common in
TBI
>victims. Furthermore, she is completely health recovered, including
her heart.
>Why should she then be considered health impaired. All of the symptoms
under
>TBI are those Chris has; memory, learning difficulties, motor planning
>problems etc. If not TBI, whenever she needs a different program she
will
>require a new evaluation. More importantly, this damn brain injury is
what
>altered a normal life. Does she not at the least have the right to
have it
>recognized?? She currently is in a MH program, after having been in an
OH
>classroom.
>>Mike
