From JACQUELINE SCHOFIELD-KING
In ‘Keeping an eye out for Sonic the Hedgehog’ (This Week, 16 January),
Charles Arthur discussed the latest problem associated with playing computer
games, namely that of epileptic seizures in photosensitive children.
I am writing to you from the David Lewis School in Cheshire. We are
part of the David Lewis Centre for the care and understanding of epilepsy.
Although some one in two hundred people have epilepsy, a prevalence
rate equalling that of diabetes, it is still the forgotten illness. People
with severe epilepsy and their carers still often have to fight for the
support which is available for them at such specialist centres as David
Lewis. Many individual’s stories are heart-rending.
Jacqueline Schofield-King The David Lewis Centre Alderley Edge, Cheshire
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