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April 28, 2023

Changes over time in speech classification between 4 and 10 years in children with cerebral palsy

Speech impairments like dysarthria are common in children with cerebral palsy (CP) which can greatly affect participation across environments. Our study examined how speech impairment severity changes over time in 101 children with CP at 4, 6, 8, and 10 years of age.

December 9, 2020

Making Decisions During a Pandemic for Children with Cerebral Palsy

As a mother and a pediatrician, I’ve both felt the strain of pandemic parenting directly and indirectly. I’ve made decisions about my own family and sending our kids to daycare and school, and I’ve stayed up worrying about how parents are supposed to make these difficult choices with so little support.

Mother standing over her daughter while they look at something together.

July 1, 2020

Teen Years

As we all know, becoming a teenager means significant upheaval, not only physically, but in terms of friendships, in terms of learning, and life outlook. This is also true for adolescents with cerebral palsy and other developmental disabilities. We know that whilst we may of spent a lot of time focusing on their physical abilities and other difficulties it is not the only part of their life.

Representation of three friends with arms around each others shoulders

July 1, 2020

CP: The Early Years

Around the age of six all children are going off to school. Children move from explorative play, which is fairly informal to a much more formal day. That can be a lengthy day and it's quite structured. There are a lot of challenges faced by children with cerebral palsy throughout the school year.

A screenshot from the YouTube video, "The Early Years"

July 1, 2020

Measuring Growth for Children with Cerebral Palsy

Weight, height and body composition are important indicators for development. The tools used to measure these can be different for children with cerebral palsy.

Illustration on pink background with a female clinician sitting across from a family including parents and a young girl in a wheelchair. There is a question mark in a speech bubble above the young girl and the clinician is holding a clipboard with the words growth, nutrition and body composition on it.

July 1, 2020

Use of Segmental Lengths for the Assessment of Growth in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Children with cerebral palsy (CP) often grow poorly and assessment of growth in this population is further complicated by two main difficulties. Firstly, children may have joint contractures, muscular weakness, scoliosis, and/or involuntary movements that make standing or lying straight difficult, if not impossible.

July 1, 2020

One Size Does NOT Fit All- Using Multiple Means For Communication

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.

Drawing of hand giving the thumbs up signal against a pink background

July 1, 2020

Muscle Tone & Early Development

When treating a child with CP, part of a pediatrician’s job is assessing and treating children with abnormal tone difficulties, as well as other muscular-skeletal problems. From around the age of two years, kids start to develop difficulties with muscle tone that can have an impact on their hip development.

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