Too often, people with disabilities are relegated to being passive when it comes to the arts.
Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder that affects how clear and understandable a person’s speech is. Between 50-90% of people with CP have dysarthria.
As your child with CP is becoming a teenager, there are a couple of things you may want to think about.
I spent many years and many hours learning how to make the body work better, how to bring it out of pain. But that's not the human being alone.
Let me tell you about multimodal communication. We, as typical communicators, all use many different strategies. We use speech, gestures, facial expressions, technology, and no-tech solutions. As communicators, we all size up the situation based upon our communication partners, the context, the environment and then we choose to use the most effective communication strategy.