TY - JOUR AU - Jolanta Panasiuk PY - 2018/12/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Epilepsy in Diagnosis and Logopaedic Therapy: A Case Study JF - Logopedia Silesiana JA - LS VL - 0 IS - 7 SE - DO - UR - https://www.journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/LOGOPEDIASILESIANA/article/view/8238 AB - Epilepsy in children leads to disorders in their psychomotor development or the loss of their acquired skills. Successful pharmacological treatment of epilepsy provides grounds for effective therapeutic measures. The goal of this article is to present the dynamics of neurodevelopmental disorders in the course of the severe symptomatic epilepsy with status epileptici which affected a 10-year-old girl. As a result of longitudinal studies, four stages were distinguished which determined the dynamics of development of the disease: 1) up to the age of 10, when the child’s psychomotor development proceeded correctly, 2) between the ages of 10 and 15, when, because of epilepsy, the disorders in the cognitive, linguistic, emotional, behavioural, motor, and vegetative spheres occurred, which assumed the form of profound dementia, 3) between the ages of 16 and 17, when the balance of the bioelectric activity of the brain was achieved owing to the optimisation of pharmacological treatment, 4) between the ages of 17 and 25, when, after the multi-specialist therapy, there was a significant improvement in the functioning of all the disordered spheres, which enabled the patient to finish junior and senior high school, apply to a university, obtain very good results in learning, and to achieve spectacular successes in sport. ER -