Problem learners may have undiagnosed epilepsy Annual Meeting 2000 Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland Monday 3rd July to Friday 7th July 2000 Children with learning and behavioural problems at school may be suffering from undiagnosed epilepsy. If the spells last for one or two minutes, the lesson will have moved on and the learning process will have been interrupted. When the children become conscious of their surroundings again, the lesson may not make sense because they have missed so much. Dr Parkin said that epilepsy in itself does not necessarily predispose to poor social achievement. But when accompanied by cognitive impairments, there are social consequences.
Boys are more likely than girls to be affected.
The child remembers very little of this. They can start and end abruptly. The child may also describe having an aura. Anxiety and depression and low self-esteem are very common. The child knows they are not performing as well as they should.