The Effect of Admission Functional Independence on Early Recovery in Pediatric Traumatic and Nontraumatic Brain Injury.

Objective: To examine functional independence at admission as a predictor of outcomes during an initial inpatient hospitalization for a pediatric brain injury.

Participants: A total of 531 pediatric inpatients with traumatic (n = 298) or nontraumatic (n = 233) brain injuries.

Design: Retrospective analysis of data extracted from the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation.

Retrieval practice as an effective memory strategy in children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury.

Objective: To investigate whether retrieval practice (RP) is a more effective memory strategy than restudy in children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Design: Three × two within-subjects experiment: 3 (learning condition: massed restudy [MR], spaced restudy [SR], retrieval practice [RP]) × 2 (stimulus type: verbal paired associates [VPAs] and face-name pairs [FNPs]). The dependent measure was delayed recall of VPAs and FNPs.