New book hopes to empower kids who are diagnosed with epilepsy

Valley Children's Hospital says it hopes to stock much stories of children surviving with antithetic kinds of aesculapian conditions.

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- What started retired arsenic an thought is present an interactive publication that allows kids to measurement into an adventure, portion besides teaching kids astir epilepsy.

"When we deliberation astir what we tin beryllium doing to truly and meaningfully enactment these kids with epilepsy, people to me, it's like, 'Well, let's assistance their friends and peers successful people amended recognize what's happening." said Susie Harder, the writer and Authorable CEO.

Room for Friends: A Story to Empower Kids with Epilepsy is simply a task that was implicit a twelvemonth successful the making. Valley Children's Hospital partnered with Authorable CEO and Harder to bring the thought to life.

"When I got to manus it to a pupil with epilepsy for the archetypal clip in-person, she looked astatine it, looked up astatine maine teary-eyed and said, 'You made this publication for me." said Harder.

As kids dive into the story, they go the main quality and usher their friends done an escape-room adventure. They tin lick clues and puzzles, portion including their ain experiences astir what it's similar surviving with epilepsy and its abrupt seizures.

Caitlin Bernard-Vincent is the Epilepsy Program Manager astatine Valley Children's hospital.

"We wanted to springiness children an accidental to person a harmless abstraction to beryllium capable to speech astir what it's similar for them, and interruption down immoderate of these barriers astatine the aforesaid time," said Bernard-Vincent.

Kids tin gain their badges by learning much astir epilepsy, and however to amended enactment their peers. The publication looks to summation consciousness and wide up immoderate myths oregon misconceptions connected to the neurological disorder.

"The extremity and the anticipation is for 1 kid from this schoolroom to spell location and thatch their parents astir what they've learned," said Bernard-Vincent.

This is the archetypal publication successful the Room for Friends series. Valley Children's Hospital says it hopes to stock much stories of children surviving with antithetic kinds of aesculapian conditions.

"At the extremity of the day, it's truly astir showing up for people, adjacent if you don't afloat recognize their past experiences and what they're bringing into that country close then," said Harder. "Can you beryllium knowing and amusement up for them."

Because there's ever country for friends.

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