Introduction: Epilepsy is one of the commonest neurological disorders in ‎childhood with an estimated prevalence in 4-5/1,000. According to ‎epidemiological studies in Egypt, epilepsy affect four per thousand children of ‎school age. Of these about one third can be regarded as having active epilepsy, ‎having had a seizure in past 24 months, two thirds have been seizure free in past ‎‎24 months. Cognitive impairment occurs more frequently in ‎children with epilepsy than in children without epilepsy. The underlying causes of ‎cognitive impairment are generally complex and multifactorial. Age at onset of ‎epilepsy, seizure type and frequency, ongoing subclinical epileptiform discharges, ‎and duration of epilepsy are known to impact on the cognitive impairment in ‎children with epilepsy.‎
It is well known that learning disorders are more common in people with epilepsy ‎than in the general population. The extent to which epilepsy impacts the learning ‎depends on seizure frequency, location of seizure activity in the brain, and how ‎much of the brain is involved. ‎