Is Cerebral Palsy An Intellectual Disability?

Learning and gaining knowledge

Standards

9b Students know how the nervous system mediates communication between different parts of the body and the body’s interactions with the environment.

9c Students know how the feedback loops in the nervous and endocrine systems regulate conditions in the body.

What is Cerebral Palsy?

It’s a group of disorders that affects movements. It results from brain damage that occurs during, or after birth. It also affects the nervous system. There are different types of cerebral

palsy:▪ Diplegia affects arms and legs.▪ Hemiplegia affects limbs on one side of

the body.▪ Quadriplegia affects all limbs.▪ Monoplegia affects only one limb.▪ Triplegia affects all three limbs.

The History of Cerebral Palsy

Cerebral palsy was discovered by an English surgeon in the 1860’s named William Little.

William Little notice the stiffness in children's arms and legs called spastic diplegia.

The previous name of cerebral palsy was ‘The Little’s disease’.

Cerebral palsy is also known as CP. Williams theory of cerebral palsy was difficulties during birth.

Williams theory was the most common affect of cerebral palsy, but physicians today discovered many more affects towards CP.

The Theory of Cerebral Palsy Interference during delivery such as

lack of oxygen to the fetus. Cerebral palsy can be diagnosed

before and after birth. Epilepsy was known after CP; a brain

disorder with repeated seizures. Cerebral palsy is caused mostly by the nervous system.

Nervous system

Having cerebral palsy causes the nervous system to weaken the spinal chords connection to the brain.

Is There A Cure?

Cerebral palsy is incurable, but it can be maintain by physical therapy.

In physical therapy they exercise and learn how to balance themselves out.

They also learn how to make body movements on their own.

The Early Symptoms of CP

Early signs of cerebral palsy will be noticeable around the age of 3.

A main sign of cerebral palsy in babies would be development delay and abnormal muscle tone.▪ Development delay is when children or adults are

not able to stand, walk, run, sit, or grab objects.▪ Abnormal muscle tone is tension in the muscle or

stiffness in the body. Babies born prematurely are most likely to have cerebral palsy.

Communications

Most people with cerebral palsy, are unable to talk. They use devices that helps them communicate, or a chart with letters. Some with cerebral palsy that are deaf, use sign language.

Learning capability

Many people assume that people with disabilities are incapable of learning, as a matter of fact they can learn; it just takes time.

It depends on what type of cerebral palsy you have, to be consider an intellectual disability. An Intellectual disability is a disability with

slow limitations, both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior.

Learning capability

The basics of learning for people with CP are learning how to: Eat, communicate, exercise and learn to

maintain there muscles. By accomplishing this they can be

themselves and express who they are.

The Struggles of Having CP

UPPER BODY

LOWER BODY

Walking Running Using the toilet

properly Digesting food Severe muscle

spasms in legs.

Eating foods Grasping objects Communicating Blind Deaf Brain damage

Side affects

SEVERE

Seizures Spasms Hyperactivity disorder Speech problems

MINOR

Hearing Visual problems Behavior problems Learning problems

Words of hope from people, with CP

“So many of our dreams at first

seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we

summon the will they soon become inevitable.”

- Christopher Reeve

“My biggest hopes and

dreams were to be normal and be accepted in society without being look at strangely.”

-Craig Clifton“My wish was to

show that I am

capable of living

and doing things

my own .”

-Jessica Gould

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