The recent report of the British Advisory Committee on the Health and Welfare of Handicapped Persons entitledPeople with Epilepsy(1969) deserves study far beyond British shores as a framework within which to restructure our thinking about epilepsy. In their “Envoi” the Committee makes the comment that, “There were many areas of the life of those with convulsive disorders about which we would have liked to have factual information.” They made a firm plea for further clinical and social research. With the active support of the British Epilepsy Research Fund we are attempting in Bristol—a typical North European city—to answer some of their questions in order to find out more about the life and needs of school children wi