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Item Nr: B 95301 Title: Epilepsy on Our Terms: Stories by Children with Seizures and Their Parents
Grade Lvl: T Author: Schachter, Steven Montouris, Georgia
Length: 154 Prod/Pub: Oxford University Press
Copyright: 2008 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 0 Loan Period: 14 days
 
  Revised edition of Brainstorms Family presents the firsthand personal accounts of children with seizure disorders and their parents. Describes the experiences of handling the crisis of the initial seizure, adjusting to the diagnosis of epilepsy, coping with seizures, managing medications and side effects, and dealing with health care providers, teachers, schoolmates, siblings, and friends. Includes a medical discussion of childhood seizures written by Dr. John Pellock, and a guide for parents & schoolteachers written by William Murphy.

  Subjects:
  402 - DISEASES
  1480 - EPILEPSY
  1820 - FEP/PEC
  1613 - REQUEST--AEA
  1465 - SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS/PERSONS