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Abstract
Epilepsy is one of the commonest neurological disorders in childhood with an estimated prevalence in 4-5/1,000.
According to epidemiological studies in Egypt, epilepsy affect four per thousand children of school age. Of these about one third can be regarded as having active epilepsy, having had a seizure in past 24 months, two thirds have been seizure free in past 24 months.
Idiopathic primarily referred to genetic causes, symptomatic referred to the presence of a known disorder or lesion, and cryptogenic referred to a presumed but unknown symptomatic cause. The term idiopathic is now used to refer to four well-described epilepsy syndromes. Six etiologic categories (structural, genetic, infectious, metabolic, immune, unknown) have been defined.
Specific learning disorders are neurodevelopmental disorders that are typically diagnosed in early school-aged children, although may not be recognized until adulthood. They are characterized by a persistent impairment in at least one of three major areas: reading, written expression, and/or math that leads to unexpected underachievement in a range of learning processes involving the skills of listening, speaking, spelling, written expression, mathematics, understanding, or reading.
SLDs are very common in school children with epilepsy. SLDs are also defined by a significant discrepancy between a child’s intellect ability and a specific area of academic achievement, based on individual psychological testing. An important aspect of the definition of SLDs is in its exclusions: SLD cannot be attributed primarily to mental retardation, emotional disturbances, cultural difference, or environmental factors.
This work focused on assessment of the presence of specific learning disorders in ninety-one school-aged children with idiopathic epilepsy, ranging in age from 6 to 18 years. Additionally, it aimed to elucidate the relations between all studied different epilepsy variables and both learning and behavioral affection in epileptic children using Learning and Developmental Disorders Rating Scales (LDDRS) Battery.
In this work, it is found that the higher the frequency of seizures is, the more adverse affection of learning by affection of memory, reading and mathematics.
Children who have general