The complex interplay between epilepsy, autism and intellectual disability
Do you care for young people with epilepsy and autism? Then you
probably recognize the complex interplay between these two.
For example when it comes to communication. If you have epilepsy,
your perception is regularly disrupted by epileptic activity in the
brain. As a result, you literally miss someone else's
communication. If you also have autism – and therefore have
difficulty processing information from your environment and giving
it the right meaning – then communicating is quite a job …
Or, for example, with a theme such as independence. This is complex
for clients with autism and epilepsy. Epileptic seizures, for
example, cause clients to miss information. Simply because they
were absent for a while due to the attack. What effect
does this have on the independence of these clients? And how do you
deal with this as a supervisor?
In the article series you can read more about stimulus processing, communication, tension, flexibility & change and independence.
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