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SAMPLE, DESIGN, & INTERVENTIONACHIEVEMENTMEASUREInteligencia por NinosWechsler (EINW)OUTCOMEAcademicAchievement: PeabodyIndividual AchievementTest(PIAT) (Subtests:Reading, ReadingComprehension,Spelling, Mathematics,& General Knowledge)and medication variables. Underachievement in mathematics was slightlymore frequent in the group with longer duration of seizure disorder, butthis barely reached statistical significance (p = .05).Major determinants of achievement included subscales of the HOMEscale, age (older children more likely to be underachieving)), and parentaleducation. An equal proportion of newly diagnosed and/or untreatedsubjects were underachieving compared to those with longstandingepilepsy and anticonvulsant drug treatment.Behavior: Parent’sperception of thechild’s attention,activity level, conduct,coordination, and sleepproblemsSeidenberg(1986)Sample: N = 122 children with epilepsy who wereroutinely referred for neuropsychological evaluations atthe Behavioral Studies Section of the Epilepsy Center ofthe University of Virginia Medical Center and who werebetween 7 and 15 years of ageStudy Design: Cross-sectionalIntelligence: WechslerIntelligence Scale forChildren-Revised(WISC-R)AcademicAchievement: subtestsof the Wide RangeAchievement Test(WRAT) includingmeasures of wordrecognition, spelling,and arithmetic; readingcomprehension subtestfrom the PeabodyIndividual AchievementTestAs a group, the children made less academic progress than expected fortheir IQ level (difference scores) and age level (percentile scores).There was a significant effect for academic area (F = 20.04, df = 3,p