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The need for awareness and management of seizure disorders is a major problem for educators. This need may be more important for personnel who work with children classified as emotionally disturbed because one form of seizure disorder, psychomotor seizures, may easily be misinterpreted as recalcitrant behavior. Project SAFE (Seizure Assimilation For Educators) was designed as a pilot project to train education personnel in the various aspects of seizure management. The project training program, utilizing a pretest/posttest design, compared the knowledge levels of 33 educators on seizure disorders and their management. Results were found to be statistically significant, which indicated that teachers had little knowledge of seizure disorders and their management, and that Project SAFE was an effective educational model for mainstream inservice training.

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Seizure Disorders and Emotionally Disturbed Children and Youth: An Inservice Training Model

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