The Effectiveness of Hospital School Re-Entry Programs for Children with Life-Altering Illness or Injury

<p>When otherwise healthy students suffer from a life-altering injury such as traumatic brain injury (TBI), many of them will return to their schools and classrooms, but with dramatically different abilities and needs. Within UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals resides an interdisciplinary team of specialists who collaborate to determine what these children will need in order to prepare not only the student, but also those who will play a part in the success of their return to school. The goal of the team is to create a pre-entry framework that will provide the tools necessary to put into place those services; and facilitate those actions necessary to help the child re-enter the school system. This study will look at the framework they have created and its effectiveness in assisting the children and their larger community, as they prepare for the transition from patient back to student. Students with life-altering illness or injury, benefit from receiving professional services that help them successfully re-enter school.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Mixon-Martin, Karen Lynne

Contributors dc:contributor

• Madalienne F. Peters, EdD

• Student Health
• TBI
• Brain Injury
• School Re-entry
• Education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.dominican.edu/masters-theses/104

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.dominican.edu:masters-theses-1097