SBIR/STTR Research Award
Cortex Boards for TBI Students
Award amount
$99,910Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1995Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Corptechs, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Every year approximately 16,000 to 20,000 school age children sustain traumatic brain injuries (TBIimpairment of cognitive abilities and physical functioning. The innate ability of TBI students to leenvironment is compromised because of their difficulty in receiving, processing, and storing new infhave memory impairments and process information at reduced rates. If the TBI student is presented wimanner that compensates for his impairments, significant progress can occur. The purpose of this reshardware/software techniques that can aid in transferring classroom information to the TBI student.the TBI student in learning new information and decrease student and teacher frustration.
Technology keywords
Not reported