Acquired Brain Impairment
Acquired brain impairment (ABI) is caused by external or internal trauma, resulting in total or partial functional limitations that adversely affects or limits a student's educational performance by impairing:
- Cognition, information processing, reasoning, abstract thinking, judgment, and/or problem solving
- Language and/or speech
- Memory and/or attention
- Sensory, perceptual, and/or motor abilities
- Psycho social behavior
- Physical functions
ABI does not apply to functional limitations resulting from brain trauma induced by birth, present at birth, or which is progressive and/or degenerative in nature.