TEACHERS LEARN ABOUT EPILEPSY

The Epilepsy Support and Information Centre (ESIC) recently (24 September 2006) hosted a successful half day Epilepsy Conference entitled: "Epilepsy and Education, the Role of the Teacher". Organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, this conference was the eighth in a series of Teacher Awareness Lectures organized by ESIC over the past two years.  Over 200 teachers and school administrators attended the conference. Topics covered Basic Facts about Epilepsy, Epilepsy and the Teachers Role in the Classroom, and Epilepsy and Learning Disabilities. The program also included an interactive Seizure First Aid Demonstration. An active discussion period followed the lectures.

The primary aim of the Teacher Awareness Program (TAP) is to encourage classroom integration and acceptance of students with epilepsy, and to educate teachers and other school staff members to recognize seizures and respond appropriately to a seizure in the classroom environment.

To support this program, ESIC has published a 16 page booklet entitled "Epilepsy in the School: The Role of the Teacher ". ESIC has also developed a short film on Seizure First Aid that presents actual seizure footage and appropriate first aid for each.

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