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Focuses on the role of consultants for implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1997 in the United States. Collaboration between general and special educators; Addition of the Individualized Education Program to the IDEA regulation; Provision of technical assistance and professional development activities with parents.

This study examined specific memory functions in 52 children with mild-moderate or severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and 29 noninjured controls using the Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning (WRAML). Children's recall varied as a function of injury severity and task demands. The participants with severe brain injuries performed worse than controls on global measures of visual memory, learning, and general memory functioning, as well as on specific subtests measuring recall of contextual verbal information. Children with mild-moderate brain injuries performed similarly to controls except for poorer performance on 2 subtests measuring sound-symbol learning and recall of geometric designs. Results suggest that the WRAML provides clinically useful information and that specific aspects of memory processing need to be evaluated following childhood TBI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]