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Abilities and Behaviour of Epileptic Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

H. Halstead*
Affiliation:
All Saints' Hospital, Birmingham

Extract

A survey of the literature on handicapped children reveals comparatively little on the subject of epilepsy.

Most of the articles dealing with cognitive functions have been concerned wholly or mainly with verbal intelligence as measured by tests of the “Binet” type. Those relating to behavioural or personality traits have been mainly impressionistic.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1957 

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