Source: The Melbourne Age [ Paul Heinrichs]

You don't see the injury to Brendon's brain from the accident.  He looks as he always did.  But his case has fallen through cracks in the system.

Brendon was riding his bike home from school on the footpath and 2005 when he fell and another bike hit him. He sustained facial and dental damage but his parents, Tara and Darron Jones, say his brain injury was not diagnosed at the Royal Children's Hospital at the time.  Back home, they found something was wrong.

"It's like your sons got beamed up overnight," Mr Jones says.  "He came back from hospital, recovered from the facial injuries but then was different to the point of being weird."

When he went back to school, he did not cope.  He threw tantrums, hit his siblings and tried to hit his head.

Further tests showed a mild to moderate brain injury.  The family could find no one to help.

They say the Transport Accident Commission rejected the case as it occurred on a footpath.

The council cannot help because the footpath was not faulty.

Meanwhile, Brendon has not been allocated a teacher's aide to help at school.

"He's just not going to progress," his mother says.  "He's going to stay still."