Brief clinical screening for academic underachievement in new-onset childhood epilepsy: utility and longitudinal results.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study was conducted to determine the lifetime rate and distribution of supportive academic and educational services provided to children with new- or recent-onset epilepsy and typically developing controls, the relationship of this history to objective academic test performance, and the course of performance over serial evaluations (baseline and 2 and 5years later).

Methods

Research participants were 91 children aged 8-18 at study entry, including 50 youth with recent-onset epilepsy (28 focal [FE] and 22 generalized [GE] epilepsy) and healthy first-degree cousin controls (n=41). The sample with epilepsy included children with uncomplicated epilepsy and normal imaging and development. Lifetime history of a diversity of supportive educational services was determ

SUBMITTER: Almane D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4355245 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature