Cerebral Palsy (大腦麻痺) Cerebral Palsy (大腦麻痺)
Introduction
Cerebral Palsy (大腦麻痺) is a
non-inherited disorder of movement and posture that is due to
non-progressive abnormality of the immature brain. Such weak
muscles would suppress and inhibit both voluntary and involuntary
movements.
Causes
Cerebral Palsy is caused by brain damage during pregnancy,
delivery, or at neonatal period. These include inflections of the
pregnant mother including German Measles (德國麻疹), sexually transmitted diseases.
Other conditions liked premature birth, trouble delivery, lead
poisoning, the use of drugs or alcohol can increase the risk of
occurrence of Cerebral Palsy.
Apart from that, any traumatic brain injury due to infections and
injuries can cause Cerebral Palsy. It includes car accident,
child abuse and neglect.
Characteristics
Physical:
Cerebral
Palsied population is suffering from different degrees of
physical handicap depends on different types of cerebral palsy.
They find difficult to carry out voluntary movement or maintain a
posture due to poor muscles. Many of them have to use wheelchair
or other assistance to move around.
Tactile:
Children
with Cerebral Palsy are lack of sensing things through touch.
Vision:
Eye defects
liked nystagmasm (眼球震顫) and squint (斜視) are popular in Cerebral Palsied
population.
Hearing:
Children
with Cerebral Palsy often have high frequency hearing loss.
Intelligence:
About
50-70% of Cerebral Palsied population have mental
retardation (弱智).
Besides, children with Cerebral Palsy are high risk to learning disability (學習困難) and attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (過度活躍症).
Effects
in Daily Life
Children with Cerebral Palsy usually depend on wheelchairs or
sticks. They always have to stay under shelter. They have little
chance to explore outside and play with peers to develop normal
socialization skills. Moreover, mental retardation and trunk
handicap also forbid them to learn and practice life adapting
skills also. Special and additional care have to be provided to
those unfortunate children.
Reference: Batshaw, M. L & Perret, Y. M. (1997) Children with Disabilities (4th Ed). Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes.
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