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Cerebral Compassy

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Every year, many children are born with the mental and physical ailment called Cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is a motor impairment that disables children and grownups from living the life that others without the impairment lives and it disables the motor and mental skills that others use. Around the world, it is estimated that about 15 million people have this ailment and about half of them are mental retarded and maybe about a third of them have epilepsy. It starts at birth and lasts throughout the person's life. Cerebral palsy can be seen as more than a motor disorder, it can interfere with the child's development and also with their perceptual-cognitive impairment, social and motor problems of daily living, and their emotional and behavioral problems (Perat, 2012). A good definition of Cerebral palsy is that it is a group of developmental disorders of movement and posture that causes activity restrictions or disability. It can be caused by the disturbances in the fetal or infant brain and the motor impairment may be followed by a seizure disorder and the impairment of communication, sensation, cognition, and/or behavior (Perat, 2012). People with CP are diagnosed as having lesions on the brain that impairs their motor functions. They cannot control their motor functions such as …show more content…

Studies have shown that when making assessments of children with Cerebral palsy, it is best to assess them on their own and not with other children who does not have the illness. According to Livingston and others, children with CP are reported to have a decreased quality of life compared to others. Also, their Gross Motor Function Classification System are reliable in physical function, but does not correlate with their psycho social well-being. And lastly, although children with CP have different life issues than adults or children, there have been limited research on the Quality of Life factors for this age range (Livingston, Rosenbaum, & others,

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