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- Title
Children with epilepsy in school: Special service usage and assessment practices.
- Authors
Wodrich, David L.; Kaplan, Allen M.; Deering, William M.
- Abstract
Special services usage and related assessment procedures were investigated for 50 students with epilepsy. Fifty-six percent of students with epilepsy received special education services, with mental retardation designation and self-contained placement common, especially among individuals with epilepsy plus a coexisting neurological diagnosis. Sixteen percent of participants had an “other health impairment” designation, and several of these were deemed eligible in at least one other special education category. The majority of students who had been evaluated were administered IQ, adaptive behavior, speech/language, and sensorimotor components, whereas few were assessed for executive or memory functions. Little information about antiepileptic drugs, their effects, or the actual manifestation of students' seizures appeared in special services school documents. Additional empirical information regarding services for children with chronic health conditions, such as epilepsy, is necessary to improve school psychologists' practice. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Psychol Schs 43: 169–181, 2006.
- Subjects
SCHOOL children; SCHOOL health services; BRAIN diseases; EPILEPSY in youth; CHILD psychology; MENTAL health; CHILDREN with intellectual disabilities; EDUCATION of people with intellectual disabilities; ACTIVITY programs in special education; EDUCATION of children with disabilities
- Publication
Psychology in the Schools, 2006, Vol 43, Issue 2, p169
- ISSN
0033-3085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/pits.20123