Intensive Preoperative Speech Rehabilitation in Drug-Resistant Temporal Epilepsy

Inclusion criteria

• Patient 16 years of age and older,
• Patient whose epileptogenic area involves the temporal structures of the hemisphere specialized for language,
• Patient whose hemispheric specialization for language is known
• Patient willing to undergo resective surgery such as anterior temporal lobectomy or resection in the temporal lobe involving the hippocampus and/or the baso-temporal language area and whose planned surgery date is compatible with the performance of the study,
• Patient with a known NTB score
• Patient who has signed an informed consent or patient whose parents or legal guardians have signed the informed consent (or a single parent or legal guardian if applicable)
• Patient whose first language is French (1st language learned by the patient),
• Patient declaring to be familiar with the use of a computer and having access to an internet connection from home
• Patient affiliated or benefiting from a social security system.

Exclusion criteria

• Patient with a speech disorder that may impair intelligibility and compromise the use of the interface;
• Patient with an uncorrected hearing impairment,
• Patients with a total intelligence quotient (IQ) <70 (assessed in the context of care, in the year preceding the surgical procedure)
• Patients who are pregnant, nursing, deprived of liberty, under guardianship or curatorship.