As your child with CP is becoming a teenager, there are a couple of things you may want to think about.
Weight, height and body composition are important indicators for development. The tools used to measure these can be different for children with cerebral palsy.
It's really hard just to watch someone walk to decide what's wrong with them. A better way is to do what's called Three Dimensional Gait Analysis, and that's where the child comes into one of our labs. Here, we put markers on their face, hands, and legs. We have a computer and a bunch of cameras all around the room. And then we're able to break down the gait into three dimensions.