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Epilepsy, school readiness in Canadian children: Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Children and Youth (NLSCY)

Abstract

PURPOSE: Utilizing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) we evaluated the association between childhood epilepsy and health impairments on measures of school readiness employed in the survey. METHODS: Standard scores on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) were employed in a regression analysis to compare scores in children with and without epilepsy. We also examined the effect of impairments …

Authors

Prasad C; Corbett BA; Prasad AN

Journal

Seizure, Vol. 23, No. 6, pp. 435–438

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

June 2014

DOI

10.1016/j.seizure.2014.03.001

ISSN

1059-1311