Os impactos da epilepsia e suas comorbidades no processo de ensino-aprendizagem: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The general objective of this course conclusion work was to understand the impacts of epilepsyand its comorbidities on the teaching-learning process. Specific objectives are: to identifythegeneral picture of epilepsy and the possible impairments to the child's learninganddevelopment; to analyze the relationship between epilepsy and intellectual disability (ID) andto investigate the stage of cognitive development of a child with epilepsy and ID, inorder tounderstand how the disease may have affected their development. For this, it made useof anexploratory, descriptive and qualitative research that was divided into two phases. Thefirst referred to a bibliographic research that composed the first theoretical chapters, wheretherelationship between brain/learning, epilepsy/intellectual disability and the role of the school was emphasized. In the second phase, based on the researcher's own Experience Report, aCaseStudy was carried out, followed by the application of Piagetian tests with a researchsubject who presents the epilepsy report with the comorbidity of ID. The data collected were analyzedbased on the references studied and the results revealed that the subject evaluated has alevel of development incompatible with his chronological age, indicating the presence of limitationsin different areas and brain functions, which may be the result of frequent and intense epilepticseizures, the use of medications or the installation of an ID, with aggravations that mayoriginate from the absence of stimulation or inadequate stimulation by the familyandtheschool.