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Other Health Impairments (The regulations implementing IDEA define…

- - - - Partial seizures begin in one side of the cerebral hemisphere and typically involve only one motor or sensory system
      - Simple partial seizures usually involve motor symptoms such as uncontrollable bending and flailing
      - Complex partial seizures involve an alteration of consciousness involving mood, memory, typical behavior patterns, and/or personality traits. Children and youth with complex partial seizures are more likely to have stereotypic, repetitive movements such as pursing or smacking their lips or moving in a repetitive way such as marching.
    - - primary generalized seizures involve both cerebral hemispheres.
        Primary generalized seizures can be further classified intotonic-clonic seizures and absence seizures .
      - tonic-clonic seizures and absence seizures
        
        Tonic-clonic seizures (once known as grand mal) cause the student to lose consciousness and go back and forth through rigid extensions of extremities (tonic phase) and rhythmic contractions of extremities (clonic phase
        
        absence seizures (formerly known as petit mal), the student also loses consciousness but only for a brief period lasting about ten seconds.