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.
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.