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Attention and visuospatial impairments occur in children with partial epilepsy (PE). Attention impairment interrupts the development of other cognitive functions, eg. working memory and executive functions. Visuospatial impairment for one has been associated with difficulties in mathematics. Few systematically controlled neurocognitive rehabilitation techniques for children exist. Our aim was to examine the intervention effect with a computer-based attention and visuospatial rehabilitation modules for children.

27 children with PE: 16 in study group (mean age=10.07 yrs, SD=1.149) and 11 in waiting-list group (mean age = 10.51 yrs, SD=1.766) with same profiles of cognitive impairment participated. Study group received individual supervised rehabilitation twice a week during 6 weeks with FORAMENRehab software (Sarajuuri et al, 2000; adapted for children by authors), while waiting-list group …