Intensive Preoperative Speech Rehabilitation in Drug-Resistant Temporal Epilepsy

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Patient 16 years of age and older,

2. Patient whose epileptogenic area involves the temporal structures of the hemispherespecialized for language,

3. Patient whose hemispheric specialization for language is known

4. Patient willing to undergo resective surgery such as anterior temporal lobectomy orresection in the temporal lobe involving the hippocampus and/or the baso-temporallanguage area and whose planned surgery date is compatible with the performance ofthe study,

5. Patient with a known NTB score

6. Patient who has signed an informed consent or patient whose parents or legalguardians have signed the informed consent (or a single parent or legal guardian ifapplicable)

7. Patient whose first language is French (1st language learned by the patient),

8. Patient declaring to be familiar with the use of a computer and having access to aninternet connection from home

9. Patient affiliated or benefiting from a social security system.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patient with a speech disorder that may impair intelligibility and compromise theuse of the interface;

2. Patient with an uncorrected hearing impairment,

3. Patients with a total intelligence quotient (IQ) <70 (assessed in the context ofcare, in the year preceding the surgical procedure)

4. Patients who are pregnant, nursing, deprived of liberty, under guardianship orcuratorship.