Educating Students After Acquiring a Traumatic Brain Injury: A Meta-Synthesis

Since the addition of traumatic brain injury, as a specific category, to the Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1990, schools around the United States have become more aware of this complex, unique disability. More students are now being serviced correctly by special education teachers and support personnel, in the educational setting. As more students are entering the education system, under the disability category of traumatic brain injury, and receiving the correct individualized services for their disability, the more students are graduating from high school and going on to be successful in a college education. These individuals are able to have access to accommodations they need in school and possibly for the rest of their lives. This meta-synthesis of the literature on student reentry after a traumatic brain injury, investigates the sudden onset of injury, the academic reentry process, common characteristics as a result of injury, family dynamics caused by an injured member, and the life of an individual, post injur