Children with Epilepsy in School: Special Service Usage and Assessment Practices

Autor/inn/en	Wodrich, David L.; Kaplan, Allen M.; Deering, William M.
Titel	Children with Epilepsy in School: Special Service Usage and Assessment Practices
Quelle	In: Psychology in the Schools, 43 (2006) 2, S.169-181 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-3085
DOI	10.1002/pits.20123
Schlagwörter	Special Education; Seizures; School Psychologists; Mental Retardation; Health Conditions; Epilepsy; Special Needs Students; Student Needs; Neurological Impairments; Self Contained Classrooms; Drug Therapy; Student Evaluation; Evaluation Methods + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Anfallsleiden; School psychologist; Psychologists; School; Schools; Schulpsychologe; Schulpsychologin; Psychologe; Psychologin; Psychologen; Schule; Geistige Behinderung; Epilepsie; Sonderpädagogischer Förderbedarf; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung
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. (Contains 6 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10