Bullet points (3-5) 150 types for each bullet points (just an abstract/summary 1 bullet for section)

1. Self-assessment to choose of appropriate job
2. Importance of Seizure Control and seizures’ consequences at work
3. Facing with driving restrictions
4. Accidents and falls
5. Seizures’ triggering factors (light, reading, etc.)
6. Motor and sensory deficits
7. Cognitive deficits
8. Disclosure and Stigma

Introduction

Although epilepsy is a common neurological disorder, unemployment and underemployment are more common in people with epilepsy. Lower salaries and stigma negatively affect work conditions among people with epilepsy. Some issues still impair finding and retaining a job: specific limitations, shifts and employers’ attitudes.

Epilepsy is a multidimensional disorder, with different manifestations impairing normal working conditions.

To choose the right job you should know special aspects linked to your disorder (epilepsy), so, an individual self-assessment is fundamental, together with your doctor highlighting some limitations linked to the disorder.

Indeed, symptoms and signs rely on specific syndromes and types of epilepsy.

Furthermore, you should not underestimate your educational attainment and your profile, when applying for a job. The goal of this module is to learn how to choose the right job according to personal educational attainment and specific risks and limitations for people with epilepsy in the work environment. In particular, we will look at individual strengths, risks and restrictions related to specific jobs (using special machinery, driving vehicles), and specific types of epilepsy. We will then focus and distinguish between “external” limitations and “internal” limitations, for example on how to disclose epilepsy to employers and colleagues, when required or necessary. Finally, we will provide you a scheme for evaluation of risks at work, giving some suggestions to make the environment safe for people with epilepsy.

After studying this module, you will achieve the following learning outcomes:

• choosing the appropriate job considering health conditions, safety and educational attainment achieved
• facing “external” and environmental limitations
• facing “internal” limitations

 The module includes in total 3 sections.

Duration of the module in hours/minutes (approximately): 1 h; 20 minutes per section