2. 1.What is Cerebral Palsy? 2. What is Spastic Cerebral Palsy? 3. What can life be like for a child with Cerebral Palsy?

3. “a group of disorders that can involve brain/nervous system functions, such as movement, learning, hearing, seeing, and thinking” (www.ncbi.nlm.gov).www.ncbi.nlm.gov Cerebral Palsy Defined

4.  Spastic  Athetoid  Ataxic  Mixed

5.  Injury/abnormality  In-utero, 1 st two years (www.ncbi.nlm.gov)www.ncbi.nlm.gov  Risk Factors  preterm birth/ stroke  Some never determined- up to 50% (Stanton, 2012)

6.  Most commonly diagnosed type  Approximately 80% (United States Center for Disease Control).  Symptoms  Stiffness  Topographical Diagnoses

7.  Specialists › Neurologists › Therapists  Surgeries  Self/Home Care

8.  Diagnosis age 1, MRI age 3  Treatments  Sasha Today

9. Works Cited 1.(2013). Retrieved from www.cerebralpalsy.org. 2.National Center for Biotechnology Information. (n.d.). National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved February 2013, from www.ncbi.nlm.gov. 3.Stanton, M. (2012). Understanding Cerebral Palsy; a Guide for Parents and Professionals. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. 4.United Cerebral Palsy. (2013). Retrieved from www.ucp.org. 5.United States Center for Disease Control. (n.d.). Retrieved from www.cdc.gov.