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Epilepsy in Young Adult Fiction

By: Cathi Shaw | Posted in:Uncategorized | July 13th, 2014Comments (2)

I’ve been working on my summer reading list and it is full of great young adult titles. But one thing I’ve noticed, that I never did before, was how often epilepsy and seizures are mentioned in these books. And how often they are mentioned in derogatory terms. My 16-year old Full Article

Tags: epilepsy, stigma, seizure, young adult fiction, novels, books


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