Dear Educators:

Welcome to the Epilepsy Classroom Web site.

Although epilepsy awareness is not always at the forefront of classroom education, we feel that it is an important topic to bring to your classroom. As you may know, epilepsy is often surrounded by fear and negativity. Usually it’s just misunderstood. This is why we are so excited to have helped to create the Epilepsy Classroom Program.

As a neurologist and a professor of education (as well as husband and wife), we drew upon our own professional experience to help develop Epilepsy Classroom—with enthusiastic support from Epilepsy Advocate™. We invite you to use this Web site to help raise the awareness of epilepsy in your classroom by educating not only yourself, but also your students.

We thank you for helping to bring epilepsy awareness to your school and hope that it adds to the growth of young minds.

Sincerely,

G. Dean Timmons, MD
Beverly Timmons, EdD

Dear Parents:

Welcome to the Epilepsy Classroom Web site.

As a parent of a child living with epilepsy, you face a number of challenges every day, from making sure your child takes his or her medication to ensuring their well-being when they’re not with you—especially when they're at school.

How do you tell your child’s teachers that they have a student living with epilepsy in their class? How do you prepare your child’s teachers to react properly when a seizure occurs in the classroom? And on the days when your child might be having a bad day, how do you empower your child to go to school and feel just like all the other kids?

In our research, we found that these questions were important to parents, but we couldn’t find many resources that provided the right answers. This is why we’re excited to have helped to create the Epilepsy Classroom program.

As a pediatric neurologist and a professor of education (as well as husband and wife), we drew upon our own professional experience to help develop Epilepsy Classroom—with enthusiastic support from EpilepsyAdvocate.™ We invite you to use this website to offer your child’s educators the right information, so that you can be sure that your child will be safe, confident, and well taken care of at school.

Sincerely,

G. Dean Timmons, MD
Beverly Timmons, EdD