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epilepsy and speech - what do you do for school??
Sun, 03/02/2008 - 07:40my daughter's speech is GREATLY affected by her epilepsy (due to where the seizures are taking place in her brain.) we have gone to ASL with her although she is still in speech once a week. this has greatly helped her communicate - praise God!
we are looking toward pre-school years now and are not sure where she fits school wise. her seizures are not under control and although she uses ASL - she hears and understands things perfectly.
anyone else in this situation? what have you done school-wise? we will not be using the computer thing that would "speak" for her.
tia!
Re: epilepsy and speech - what do you do for school??
Submitted by toriandbilly on Sun, 2008-03-02 - 17:22
I have only been diagnosed for a year but have had speech arrests for several. They are a little better in that I don´t stutter very rapidly anymore thankfully. (Think people thought I was crazy or messing about.)
My big seizures are under control but I still have a kind of strangled feeling and am unable to speak, this is only occasionally compared with b4, maybe 5 times a week for maybe only a couple of seconds at a time.
As a teacher it is a problem but usually I can kind of feel it happening. Have patience and try not to be too anxious as your girl will pick up on it, the more anxious I get the worse it gets.
I have only been diagnosed for a year but have had speech arrests for several. They are a little better in that I don´t stutter very rapidly anymore thankfully. (Think people thought I was crazy or messing about.)
My big seizures are under control but I still have a kind of strangled feeling and am unable to speak, this is only occasionally compared with b4, maybe 5 times a week for maybe only a couple of seconds at a time.
As a teacher it is a problem but usually I can kind of feel it happening. Have patience and try not to be too anxious as your girl will pick up on it, the more anxious I get the worse it gets.