Lyndsey Basham

This course has made me reevaluate the cause of several students' difficulties within the classroom over the course of my career- students I know to have come from physically abusive homes. It makes me marvel at the overlap between PTSD and TBI, and in the case of two specific students, makes me wonder which diagnosis was at the wheel when they displayed specific behaviors. Student A had a diagnosed TBI at a young age during a traumatic event and their symptoms tracked closely with the injury. Student B, however, to my knowledge has never had a diagnosed TBI, but given… >>>

I enrolled in this course specifically to support an incoming student with a known PTSD diagnosis. I have known this student for some time and not really understood how their diagnosis showed up in school as it didn't fit the classic "panic attack/flashback" symptoms I'd always known of for PTSD. Knowing that the sleep difficulties go hand in hand with symptoms now, it makes a lot more sense that the student is chronically late in the mornings. Other difficulties that have tracked with this student's life pre-diagnosis fit into the puzzle of symptoms. I am hoping as I progress I… >>>