Word Reading in Persons with Epilepsy Using the Wide Range Achievement Test-4 (WRAT-4)
Abstract number :
2.24
Submission category :
6. Cormorbidity (Somatic and Psychiatric)
Year :
2023
Submission ID :
316
Source :
www.aesnet.org
Presentation date :
12/3/2023 12:00:00 AM
Published date :
Authors :
Presenting Author: Fahham Asghar, MD – The University of Toledo
Vicki Ramsey-Williams, MD – The University of Toledo; Anum Riaz, MD – The University of Toledo; Sidra Saleem, MD – The University of Toledo; Hira Pervez, MD – The University of Toledo; Imran Ali, MD – The University of Toledo; Mary Haines, PhD – The University of Toledo
Rationale: Epilepsy is commonly associated with delays in a wide range of domains: social, cognitive, and academic. The objective of our study was to assess single word reading ability, a task commonly used to predict intellectual ability, in Persons with Epilepsy (PWE) and identify relationships between single word reading ability and type of epilepsy. Our hypothesis was that a PWE having generalized epilepsy would perform poorly on single word reading than those with focal epilepsy.
Methods: This was a cross-sectional study that recruited 79 PWE from a tertiary level epilepsy center. Exclusionary criteria included diagnoses of dementia, intellectual disabilities, or progressive brain lesions affecting memory function. Each participant was administered the word reading subtest of the Wide Range Achievement Test, 4th edition (WRAT-4; Wilkinson & Robertson, 2006). Patient demographics, details of disease, and treatment protocol were also obtained.
Results: Study participants (34% men vs 66% women; mean age±SD: 45.5±15.4) included 39 PWE with focal seizures, 30 with generalized seizures, and 10 with unknown seizure type. The mean word reading raw score of all 79 participants was 56.7 (29-70, 11.6; Range, SD) and the mean standard score was 99.5 (61-139, 19.8; Range, SD). Based on the classification standards (determined by standardized scores or SS) from the WRAT-4 technical manual, 11.4% of PWE in our cohort were classified as Lower Extreme (SS <
Cormorbidity (Somatic and Psychiatric)