Academic Achievement of Children with Epilepsy |
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| Authors: | Michael Seidenberg Niels Beck Michael Geisser Bruno Giordani‡ J Chris Sackellares§ Stanley Berent¶ F E Dreifuss Thomas J Boll†† |
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| Institution: | *University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School, Chicago, Illinois†University of Missouri-Columbia, Mid-Missouri Mental Health Center, Missouri;‡Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Bronx VA Medical Center, New York;§¶University of Michigan Medical Center;¶VA Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan;**University of, Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, Virginia;††University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A |
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| Abstract: | The academic achievement scores of 122 children with epilepsy were examined in relation to demographic and clinical seizure variables. As a group, these children were making less academic progress than expected for their age and IQ level. Academic deficiencies were greatest in arithmetic, followed by spelling, reading, comprehension, and word recognition. Results of the multiple regression analyses indicated a modest combined predictive significance of the demographic and clinical seizure variables for academic performance. In addition, the magnitude of these relationships varied by academic area. Among the individual variables examined the strongest correlates of academic performance were age of the child, age of seizure onset, lifetime total seizure frequency, and presence of multiple seizures (absence and tonic-clonic). These results are discussed in relation to developing an understanding of the factors which underlie academic vulnerability in children with epilepsy. |
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| Keywords: | Academic achievement |
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