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Lexington high school student develops new training program to handle epileptic seizures

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Data shows that about 1 in 26 individuals will develop epilepsy at some point in their lifetime, and Kentucky has about 50,000 active cases of epilepsy. Dr. Greg's guest talks about a new program addressing the care of those individuals. Sukriti Kapoor is a senior at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington and is the president of the student technology leadership program. She also founded a new program called Seizure Smart to equip not only teachers but students with the tools to handle epileptic-related emergencies.

Learn more about the Seizure Smart program here:

https://www.epilepsy.com/programs/training-education/school-personnel

McClean County Schools recently became the first Seizure Smart District School by the Epilepsy Foundation of Kentuckiana:

https://www.kasc.net/index.php?option=com_dailyplanetblog&view=entry&year=2019&month=04&day=17&id=4:mclean-co-public-schools-named-seizure-smart

Alan Lytle has more than 25 years of experience as a Kentucky broadcaster. Over that span he has earned multiple awards for anchoring, writing and producing news & features for WUKY. He took home the Kentucky Broadcasters Association's Best Radio Anchor award in 2021.