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Cognitive impairment is frequent in children with partial epilepsy (PE). Therefore, using modern and attractive neurorehabilitation methods is crucial in remediation. Rehabilitation designs should enable training different components of cognitive functions. Our aim was to discover impaired components in attention and visuospatial abilities and design an intervention.

27 children with PE (mean age=10.20 yrs, SD=1.488) and 19 healthy age-matched children participated in baseline assessment. Thereafter, 16 patients received neurorehabilitation during 5 weeks (10 sessions) with attention and visuospatial modules from computer-based FORAMENRehab program (Sarajuuri et al, 2000; adapted for children by authors). 9 attention and 11 visuospatial tasks with three difficulty levels were used to measure progress. Results were analyzed with Mann-Whitney U test.

Patients performed …