My child has recently suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury, what are the future implications?

A: For many years, most of the medical community believed that children with TBI has a much greater chance of recovery than adults, however recent studies have shown this to not be true. We now know that child TBI victims can actually experience more problems several years after the trauma. For example, a child's frontal lobes develop relatively late in a child's growth, so damage to this area of the brain may not be evident until the child reaches adolescence. The frontal lobes control social interaction and interpersonal skills. If a young child's TBI damages the frontal lobes, there could be serious problems with that child's ability to relate to other people once the child reaches adulthood.