Scholar Performance and Praxis Assessment in Children With Rolandic Epilepsy

University of Campinas, Brazil

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Rolandic Epilepsy; Apraxia

Treatments: Behavioral: Language Assessment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01046760

21 CFR 50.3.

Details and patient eligibility

About

Rolandic Epilepsy is the most common form of childhood epilepsy. It is classified as idiopathic, age-related epilepsy syndrome with benign evolution. The absence of neuropsychological impairment is part of the criteria of benignity of this epilepsy syndrome. However recently have been suggested several deficits related to attention and language. The purpose of this study was assess school performance and to investigate problems of praxis in patients with rolandic epilepsy as compared to a control group composed of normal children with age, gender and educational level equivalents.

Full description

Method: Nineteen patients aged between 7 and 12 years underwent clinical neurological evaluation, psychological assessment, through Weschsler Scales of Intelligence and language evaluation, to assess the academic performance and research of the presence or absence of praxis difficulties.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of rolandic epilepsy using clinical, EEG and neuroimaging findings
• Patients had neurological, ophthalmic and auditory unchanged, and intelligence quotient (IQ) equal to or above 80.
• All parents signed the consent form, authorizing the participation of their children (as) in the search.

Exclusion criteria

• With oral language and writing of the following tables, whereas the DSM-IV: pervasive developmental disorders, cerebral palsy child acquired aphasia, hearing impairment (including mild conductive hearing loss), progressive disease
• What not signed the consent form.

Trial design

20 participants in 1 patient group

Rolandic Epilepsy

Description:

Patients older than seven years old with clinical and electroencephalographic diagnosis of Rolandic Epilepsy

Treatment:

Behavioral: Language Assessment