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Automobile accidents are a common cause of brain injury in a young child. Because a child’s brain is undeveloped, it may take years to realize the impairments that the child faces as a result of a brain injury. Here are some facts surrounding children and brain injuries.

•  New research shows that younger children, especially between birth and five years may experience more long-term challenges than an older child.
• Measures commonly used to evaluate brain injury severity were developed for adults, not children.
• Children do not lose consciousness as easily as adults.
• Motor function is not a direct indicator of cognitive or behavioral recovery.
• Intelligence tests often are unreliable measures of a child’s learning ability after TBI. Most intelligence tests measure prior learning.
• The majority of brain injuries occur to children under 10.
• A child’s different brain lobes maturate at different periods of time.
• In examining the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury on children it is important to look as to whether the child has any pre-existing learning disabilities, pre-existing neurological or psychiatric problems and whether there is a history of family problems.

All these issues are factors for poor outcome for children who have suffered a traumatic brain injury. If the injury is a result of a car accident, it is important to choose an attorney that understand Daubert issues in traumatic Brain injury cases.