Persistence of Brain Injury Misconceptions Among Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Students

Abstract

166 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN COMMUNICATION SCIENCE AND DISORDERSVolume 36 • 166-173 • Fall 2009 ABSTRACT: Purpose: Despite the prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the United States, members of the lay public and health care professionals endorse misconcep- tions about TBI in general as well as specific information about coma, memory problems, and the recovery process. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether typical collegiate programs for training graduate-level speech-language pathologists (SLPs) are effective in dispel-