Growing Up with Epilepsy
Subtitle: a Practical Guide for Parents
Publisher: Demos Medical Pub., LLC
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781934559185
Subjects: Epilepsy in children
Description: This book provides the tools you need to raise a child with epilepsy, to support his/her social development, provide effective discipline, and negotiate the educational system. Each stage in your child's life presents unique issues and problems, ranging from finding day care to school programming to driving. This book is organized so that you can go to the information that you need when you need it, returning for updates as your child grows and new issues emerge. In her 20 years of working with children with epilepsy, Dr. Blackburn has been continually impressed by the fact that no two childre.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgment; Table of Contents; Preface; The Basic Tools; Effects of Focal Epilepsy: A Guide to Brain Organization; Changing Challenges; Changing Age; Appendix A: Model Individual Educational Plan For Children With Epilepsy; Appendix B: Driving and Epilepsy; Index.