NCT01046760

Scholar Performance and Praxis Assessment in Children With Rolandic Epilepsy

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Campinas, Brazil · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 7 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Rolandic Epilepsy
• Apraxia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Language Assessment	Patients underwent an assessment performed with School Performance Test, Syntactic Awareness Test and a Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2011-02-01
• Completion: 2011-02-01
• First posted: 2010-01-12
• Last updated: 2010-10-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil