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Epilepsy on our terms : stories by children with seizures and their parents

By: Montouris, Georgia.
Contributor(s): Pellock, John | Schachter, Steven.
Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press 2008Description: xxvi, 154 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780195330908.Subject(s): CHILDREN | EPILEPSY | SEIZURES | BIOGRAPHY | ADOLESCENTS | PARENTING | PERSONAL NARRATIVES
Contents:
Foreword by Jamie Lyn Bauer Foreword by Warren Lammert Preface Contributing Authors Epilepsy and Seizures in Children Seizure Descriptions Guide for Teachers and Parents Glossary Appendix: The Winning Kids Program
Summary: "This enlightening book presents the firsthand personal accounts of children with seizure disorders and their parents. In their own words, these children and parents vividly describe 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... also includes a straightforward medical discussion of childhood seizures, written in layperson's terms, a glossary of medical terms and a guide for schoolteachers and parents." - BOOK JACKET Rev. ed. of: The brainstorms family / Steven C. Schachter, Georgia D. Montouris, John M. Pellock. c1996
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"This enlightening book presents the firsthand personal accounts of children with seizure disorders and their parents. In their own words, these children and parents vividly describe 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... also includes a straightforward medical discussion of childhood seizures, written in layperson's terms, a glossary of medical terms and a guide for schoolteachers and parents." - BOOK JACKET
Rev. ed. of: The brainstorms family / Steven C. Schachter, Georgia D. Montouris, John M. Pellock. c1996

Foreword by Jamie Lyn Bauer
Foreword by Warren Lammert
Preface
Contributing Authors
Epilepsy and Seizures in Children
Seizure Descriptions
Guide for Teachers and Parents
Glossary
Appendix: The Winning Kids Program

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