[Psychomotor development of small children with epileptic attacks evaluated by a psychologist].

The reported investigations aimed at tracing the psychomoter development in small children with central nervous system damage for establishing whether there is any difference in the development of children in whom epileptic seizures developed as a manifestation of damage, in relation to children with palsies and epileptic seizures. The group of children observed comprised 46 cases aged from 1 to 3 years in two equal subgroups: children with epilepsy with maximal seizures and children with the diagnosis of cerebral infantile palsy with spastic quadriparesis and maximal epileptic seizures. The psychological investigations included clinical observation and experimental tests. The obtained results were subjected to analysis by the case study method. It was found that psychomotor development disturbances were more frequent in the group with cerebral palsy and epileptic seizures than in the group with epilepsy caused by brain damage. However, the level of psychomotor development of the observed children was not determined by palsy but the degree of damage to the central nervous system.