Growing Up with Epilepsy: A Practical Guide for Parents

✍ Scribed by Lynn Bennett Blackburn

• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 178
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Growing Up with Epilepsy provides parents with the tools needed to raise a child with epilepsy, to support his/her social development, provide effective discipline, and negotiate the educational system.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgment......Page 9
Table of Contents......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
The Basic Tools......Page 15
1. Understanding Epilepsy......Page 17
2. The Challeges of Living with Epilepsy......Page 29
3. Dealing with the Demon at the Dinner Table......Page 39
4. Epilepsy Goes to School......Page 49
Effects of Focal Epilepsy: A Guide to Brain Organization......Page 65
5. The Frontal Lobes......Page 67
6. The Temporal Lobes......Page 81
7. The Occipital and Parietal Lobes......Page 91
Changing Challenges; Changing Age......Page 97
8. Epilepsy During the First Two Years......Page 99
9. Epilepsy in the Preschool Years......Page 111
10. Epilepsy in the Elementary School Years......Page 123
11. Epilepsy in the Adolescent Years......Page 137
12. Some Final Words for Parents......Page 147
Appendix A: Model Individual Educational Plan For Children With Epilepsy......Page 153
Appendix B: Driving and Epilepsy......Page 169
Index......Page 171