What does Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) really portray in the movie, 50 First Dates? After watching the movie, it showed that Lucy, who was played by Drew Barrymore had a form of amnesia that causes her to lost her short term memory in the movie. She only has memory day to day. Once she falls asleep it’s like a new beginning for her on the new day. Lucy amnesia is the result of a head injury that happened in a car accident. Her and her father hit a cow in the road and ran into a tree on their way to pick a pineapple. In reality, TBI is caused by an impact to the head that disrupts normal brain function. It can affect a person’s cognitive abilities which includes the thinking and learning ability. If a person has amnesia that is serve in …show more content…
If the person has family that is willing to walk the rocky road with them each day, then they too can have a different approach in life. These people want the best of their family. This makes me think of us as teachers. We want the best for our students, so why separate them in different rooms due to a disability. We need to include them in everyday activities and adjust to their learning to make them successful in school. Henry, was the teacher in this movie. He was determined and knew that Lucy life could change more and she can live a different day instead of repeating the same day the rest of her life. This movie really impacts me when watching it this time around. When I first saw it was when it came out a few years ago. This time watching it from a different view was very interesting. I was watching it from a teacher view of how would we teach children with this disability. We could teach them every day, but the short term memory is gone, so every day they would be learning the material all over again. With cases like this remember the IEP and it can be flexible in this type of learning to meet the child’s need. Social and emotional changes could come into play with the child due to adjusting their expectations. We as teachers need to use more than one way to demonstrate or explain the material to the child with