The document summarizes cerebral palsy, including that it is a disorder affecting movement caused by brain damage before or after birth. It affects the nervous system and can impact limbs on one or both sides of the body. Cerebral palsy was discovered in the 1860s and is incurable but treatable through physical therapy to exercise and improve mobility. Early signs include developmental delays and abnormal muscle tone. Learning focuses on daily living skills like eating, communicating, and mobility.

1. Learning and gaining knowledge

2.  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.

3.  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.

4.  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.

5.  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.

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

7.  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.

8.  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.

9.  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.

10.  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.

11.  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.

12. UPPER BODY LOWER BODY
 Eating foods  Walking
 Grasping objects  Running
 Communicating
 Using the toilet properly
 Digesting food
 Blind
 Severe muscle spasms in
 Deaf legs.
 Brain damage

13. SEVERE MINOR
 Seizures  Hearing
 Spasms  Visual problems
 Hyperactivity disorder  Behavior problems
 Speech problems  Learning problems

14. “My biggest hopes
and dreams were
to be normal and
be accepted in
society without
being look at
strangely.”
-Craig Clifton

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