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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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