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Motor Disorders
Motor disorders, like #cerebralpalsy, are characterized by an abnormal flow of message transmissions from the brain to the nerves to the muscles. So what does it mean when the #doctor diagnoses your #child with a motor disorder?
Dysarthria & Cerebral Palsy
Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder that is specifically caused by a neurological injury, such as cerebral palsy. Kids with dysarthria have difficulty speaking or speak unclearly. Their speech may be unintelligible, too quiet, stilted or inefficiently expressed.
Cerebral Palsy & Hearing Loss
An estimated 10-20% of kids with cerebral palsy (CP) have some sort of hearing impairment and 5% are completely deaf.
A prospective cohort study investigating gross motor function, pain, and health‐related quality of life 17 years after selective dorsal rhizotomy in cerebral palsy
A prospective cohort study investigating gross motor function, pain, and health-related quality of life 17 years after selective dorsal rhizotomy in cerebral palsy - Tedroff - 2014 - Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology - Wiley Online Library
What Is Cerebral Palsy?
Learn more about cerebral palsy, one of the most common causes of chronic childhood disability.