Ceerebrium Project: Cerebellar Trauma

Everyone has their own set of strengths and weaknesses. Those with disabilities are no different they just have a different set then everyone else. I chose this project topic because in 5th and 6th grade I was part of a program called Peer Pals. Once a week during recess I volunteered in a special needs classroom. This work opened my eyes to the world of special needs and Peer Pals is one of the things I miss about elementary school. I realized that I needed to continue helping the special needs community. No solutions presented themselves and then one day the solution stared me in the face from it’s home in the Reston Community Center Program Guide. “Volunteer at the Adapted Aquatics Class,” I had found a solution to my problem.

There was a new movie released called Concussion, addressing a neurological deficiency called CTE or chronic traumatic encephalopathy. CTE is quoted as a “degenerative brain condition”, in a Newsweek article titled “CONCUSSION: CAN A WILL SMITH MOVIE CHANGE THE WAY WE LOOK AT FOOTBALL?” This disease was first discovered and diagnosed by Doctor Bennet Omalu, during an autopsy on Mike Webster, legendary former Pittsburgh Steeler.

Recently, former NFL players have appealed a $1 billion plan to address concussions because it excludes the key brain disease that has commonly been associated with football known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy. This is a type of brain decay that has been found in dozens of past football players after they died. Critics of the NFL's plan have insisted that the deal includes future payments for encephalopathy.

This scary article shares traumatizing information dealing with repeated, massive hits to the head in vigorous activities, like football, hockey, and even the war. What happens is people take part in too many brain risking activities and don’t stop after the first sign. Ann McKee, a pathologist at Boston Collage, states that a 25 year old man has blurred vision, major headaches and, and memory loss due to over 10 concussions, not including other massive crushes. McKee says that the man kept playing football until he became abusive and angry. Starting at age eight going to age 24 with an injured brain is an extreme risk. Finally, beat down and rugged, the car ran out of gas in the football world for this man.

Explain how you can support students with the disability to learn new skills and concepts.

The symptoms of a concussion can vary due to a number of factors. The main variable that will affect the symptoms, post-concussion comes from the severity of the movement of the brain within the skull. After a concussion, a person may or may not lose consciousness. Some common symptoms of a concussion, include headaches, dizziness, fainting, nausea, blurred vision, sensitivity to light, sensitivity to noise, memory loss, confusion, drowsiness, anxiety, irritability, and slurred speech. However, the more severe the concussion, the more severe the symptoms can be. (Myers 2015) A report from Ledwidge in 2016 states, “Long-term effects of concussions are very rare but they happed. Moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause symptoms

Afflicted by left-side Hemiplegia and bound to a wheelchair, my grandmother’s life was not one of ease. By the time I was born she had been living with her barriers for thirty years and had learned to compensate due to her astounding will and surrounding subpar medical practices. As a child I thought nothing of the fact that my grandmother was stricken with paralysis until I witnessed her take a turn for the worse and suffer another hemorrhagic stroke. Her recovery was long and arduous yet, it was a blessing that brought us closer together and nudged me down the path of Occupational Therapy.

Cerebrovascular accidents, or strokes, will lead to brain damage that affects the functioning of executive function, memory, language, visuospatial performance and emotional states. Corresponding vertebral arteries and carotid arteries provide blood to the brain from the heart that the carotid arteries are internal and external sections of the thyroid cartilage. Where the optic nerve rests the internal artery distributes into the anterior and middle cerebral arteries. The vertebral arteries arise through the spinal vertebrae and meet the lower pons to form the basilar artery. The brain receives 15% to 20% of the oxygenated blood from the heart and can only endure fleeting interruptions of blood flow before neural operations

The main event in this article is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). CTE is a disease that occurs in people who have endured repeated brain trauma. The causes of this event are football players being injured during football games repeatedly. Results from the studies of cadaver bodies point to American football players to have a higher chance of of developing long-term neurological condition, such as CTE. The Journal of American Medical Association believe many of these injuries may have started early in the players' careers. Many football players suffer from a concussion during a football game. In the article, Amber Partida explains that three out of 14 high school players had mild CTE pathology, whereas severe CTE was found in majority

Nearly everyone knows about the infamous incident involving former Florida State University football player Jameis Winston leaving a Tallahassee Publix Supermarket without paying for $32.72 worth of crab legs. But what about the time former University of North Carolina offensive lineman Ryan Hoffman, homeless and hungry, who was arrested for stealing an eight-piece fried chicken bucket from a supermarket?

The aftermaths of repetitive brain trauma - symptomatic concussions and other blows to the heads of different severity - has been a topic of medical discussion since the 1930’s...Yes the THIRTIES. There have been a lot of scientific research into the effect of concussions and how coaches, personnels and teams should deal with players who have been concussed. In 1933, the NCAA educated all of its schools on the correct procedures of dealing with a concussed player. The NCAA thought that brain trauma weren’t taken seriously as they should be. A procedure in the NCAA medical handbook that stands out is to not allow concussed players to practice until the symptoms don’t show for 48 hours. If the symptoms are present after 48 hours, they should

It is amazing to me how people’s brains are so small compared to the whole body, yet it is an exceedingly complex organ that deals with so many mental and physical functions that help regulate our body. The brain is one of our main sources of operation, and so when a person’s brain is harmed or damaged in any way, there can be major consequences for that individual. One detrimental brain injury that has recently been heavily researched and talked is chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is a progressive degenerative disease in the brain (Comer, 2014). More light has been showed on CTE in order to raise more awareness and seek solutions in helping prevent and fix the disease. In the following paragraphs, I will explain more in detail about CTE, specifically the causes, symptoms and outcomes, and the importance of being aware of CTE.

The main reason that I choose this topic was because I did not now that much about it. I knew about the other physical disabilities in the book. I just knew that spina difida affected the spine .It is a very slim chance that I will have a student with spina bifida, but I wanted to learn about it. I want to know all that I can to help any student that I may have.

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I have chosen my “AODA training” to be in my portfolio because it shows how I understand how to act when someone has a disability. These are the people who need our help and we need to respect them. In this training we had to use teamwork skills. We did a scenario where one has a disability and where other needs to communicate with them in a certain way. We learned a lot of different methods when it came to different disability conditions. We learned how to help them and how we need to handle them as well. In this training the instructor told us many situations and what the people around them did to help. We had learned about when we have a client who has a disability, we have to take our time with that person, there is no rush and communicate