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The Speech-Language Pathologists' Role in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury for Early Childhood-, Preschool-, and Elementary School-Age Children: Viewpoints on Guidelines From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Purpose Traumatic brain injury (TBI) impacts millions of children each year, with those between birth and 4 years of age being 1 of the highest incidence groups. To address gaps… Click to show full abstract

Purpose Traumatic brain injury (TBI) impacts millions of children each year, with those between birth and 4 years of age being 1 of the highest incidence groups. To address gaps in service provision specifically for children with mild TBI (mTBI), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released guidelines for providers. Method The goal of this commentary is to deliver viewpoints on the application of the CDC guidelines directly to speech-language pathology clinical practice, with special attention paid to assessment, symptom monitoring, and intervention using a family-centered approach to care for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and early elementary students with mTBI. Results In all pediatric practice settings, speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are a critical component of the care team for children who experience mTBI and should participate in symptom monitoring, assessment, intervention, education, and advocacy for this population. Conclusions SLPs can use the CDC guidelines to advocate for their role in the care of young children with mTBI. In addition, SLPs can use the guidelines to create a framework for clinical care provision when working with young children with mTBI. Much work is needed to advance evidence-based practices for this population, and dissemination of current clinical practices could help to close this gap.

Keywords: pathology; traumatic brain; centers disease; brain injury; speech language; language

Journal Title: American journal of speech-language pathology
Year Published: 2019

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