“…Furthermore, the evidence for worse academic outcomes is based on relatively few, small sample size studies [21, 22, 26–28, 30] many of which sampled children attending hospital clinics [21, 23, 25, 30]. Whether epilepsy does [28, 30, 31] or does not [21, 22] impact on intelligence is unclear. However, there is consistent evidence that epilepsy is associated with learning difficulties [21, 28, 32], reduced cognition [20, 33] and specific cognitive impairment relating to: attention [21, 32, 34, 35], memory [21, 31, 32, 36], dexterity [32, 34], psychomotor speed [31, 34], verbal function [37], executive function [26, 36], language [21, 32], perception [32], auditory processing [26], and response inhibition [34].…”