To explore relationships between success in school and infectious childhood diseases, 25 children who had survived laboratory confirmed acute bacterial meningitis without observable sequelae were matched with 25 non-meningitic controls and subjected to intensive multidisciplinary examinations. The postmeningitic children differed significantly from their controls on measures of instructional receptivity, student image, motor coordination, and visual orientation.
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