The School Adjustment of Post-Meningitic Children.

To explore relationships between success in school and infectious childhood diseases, 25 children who had survived laboratory confirmed acute bacterial meningitis without observable sequelae were matched with 25 non-meningitic controls and subjected to intensive multidisciplinary examinations. The post-meningitic children differed significantly from their controls on measures of instructional receptivity, student image, motor coordination, and visual orientation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]