Louis Stanislaw’s documentary On the Edge: Living with Epilepsy had its first screening of a three-show tour in Ottawa May 21, and first-time viewer Lori Timmins says the film had a meaningful impact on her. Timmins, a member of Epilepsy Ottawa’s board of directors, says the first thing that stood out for her was the…
An upcoming Epilepsy Ontario-hosted webinar will focus on developing strategies for improving memory function for people who have a seizure disorder.The webinar, called Epilepsy and Memory: Coping Strategies, will feature guest speaker Dr. Brent Hayman-Abello, a clinical neuropsychologist at London Health Sciences Centre. The May 22 webinar is the third instalment in Epilepsy Ontario’s Knowledge…
Seventeen-year-old Lia Turner says she hopes a series of videos documenting her life will send a positive message about how people can live with epilepsy and be thriving and productive. The videos are part of a project Epilepsy Ontario has embarked upon in collaboration with Universus Media Group Inc., the company that created the videos.…
When Suzy Cornish’s daughter Ashley, accompanied by her epilepsy guide dog, recently went to a Kitchener school to pick up the son of a family friend, she was met by a teacher who told her she couldn’t enter the school with a dog. Ashley explaining to the teacher that her dog, Flicka, was not a…
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