CBIS Section 7: Special Populations –
Comprehensive Exam Guide with Verified
100% Correct Answers (2025 Update)
TBI - ✔✔The leading cause of death and acquired disability in children and
adolescents in the U.S.
TBIs at Ages 0-4 - ✔✔Falls, susceptible to abusive head trauma/shaken baby
syndrome
TBIs at Ages 15-19 - ✔✔Struck by something, falls, MVAs
Prognosis for recovery of previously learned skills - ✔✔Better the younger the
child is when the injury is acquired
Prognosis for acquiring new skills - ✔✔Worse the younger the child is when the
injury is acquired
, Birth to 5 years of age - ✔✔Most brain maturation occurs. Most devastating time
for a brain injury to occur.
Brain Maturation between 3-5 years of age - ✔✔Period of overall rapid brain
growth in all regions of the brain
Perfecting the ability to form images, use words, and place things in serial order;
beginning to develop tactics for problem solving.
Brain Maturation between 8-10 years of age - ✔✔Sensory and motor systems
continue to mature in tandem
Frontal executive system begins accelerated development
Maturation of sensory motor regions of the brain peak
Comprehensive Exam Guide with Verified
100% Correct Answers (2025 Update)
TBI - ✔✔The leading cause of death and acquired disability in children and
adolescents in the U.S.
TBIs at Ages 0-4 - ✔✔Falls, susceptible to abusive head trauma/shaken baby
syndrome
TBIs at Ages 15-19 - ✔✔Struck by something, falls, MVAs
Prognosis for recovery of previously learned skills - ✔✔Better the younger the
child is when the injury is acquired
Prognosis for acquiring new skills - ✔✔Worse the younger the child is when the
injury is acquired
, Birth to 5 years of age - ✔✔Most brain maturation occurs. Most devastating time
for a brain injury to occur.
Brain Maturation between 3-5 years of age - ✔✔Period of overall rapid brain
growth in all regions of the brain
Perfecting the ability to form images, use words, and place things in serial order;
beginning to develop tactics for problem solving.
Brain Maturation between 8-10 years of age - ✔✔Sensory and motor systems
continue to mature in tandem
Frontal executive system begins accelerated development
Maturation of sensory motor regions of the brain peak
