Cerebral palsy refers to a group of conditions that are caused by problems in brain development and that affect how movement and motor control happen in children. Problems with walking and talking are often the way people start a conversation about cerebral palsy.
As your child with CP is becoming a teenager, there are a couple of things you may want to think about.
Cerebral palsy is an injury to the brain, but what we find is that it has a lot of effects on how you use your muscles.
To give you an idea about genetic variation between each of us, there are about three million differences in our genetic code. They go to influence the color of our hair and the color of our eyes, the way we walk.
One of the things that we typically forget when we look at kids who have conditions like CP, is that they're first and foremost, children.