The psychosocial well-being of children and adolescents with epilepsy is affected by comorbid language deficits. Little is known about the focus of current research in language and epilepsy. A systematic review of research was conducted to identify gaps in knowledge regarding language and epilepsy. In total, 83 published articles were eligible for inclusion. More studies included samples presenting with focal seizures (k = 39) compared to generalized seizures (k = 10), few included measures of morphology (k = 4). Most studies (k = 66) included samples of participants across a wide age range. Our review indicated t-hat future research should include a greater focus on participants with more diversity in epilepsy etiology (e.g., symptomatic epilepsy), and seizure type (e.g., generalized seizures), assessment of additional areas of language (e.g., morphology), increased focus on early childhood, focused examination of specific developmental stages, and greater use of comparison groups with an alternate epilepsy diagnosis.

患有癫痫症的儿童和青少年的社会心理健康受到共病语言缺陷的影响。目前对语言和癫痫研究的重点知之甚少。对研究进行了系统回顾，以确定有关语言和癫痫的知识差距。总共有 83 篇已发表的文章符合纳入条件。更多的研究包括 与全身性癫痫发作 ( k  = 10)相比呈现局灶性癫痫发作 ( k = 39) 的样本，很少包括形态学测量 ( k  = 4 )。大多数研究（k = 66) 包括广泛年龄范围的参与者样本。我们的评论表明，未来的研究应更加关注癫痫病因（例如，症状性癫痫）和癫痫发作类型（例如，全身性癫痫发作）的多样性，评估其他语言领域（例如，形态学），增加对幼儿期的关注，对特定发育阶段的重点检查，并更多地使用具有替代性癫痫诊断的对照组。