Neuropsychological Assessment of the Child with Cerebral Palsy

Wilson, Barbara C.; Davidovicz, Herman M.

doi:10.1055/s-2008-1064274

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“…The assessment of cognitive development in infants with cerebral palsy is fraught with di culties. Wilson and Davidovicz ( 1987 ) emphasize that there have been few advances in the development of adequate tools for the assessment of cognition in persons with cerebral palsy. Each subject was assessed on the Gri ths Mental Development Scales (Gri ths, 1954) as a standard test to provide some form of standard measure.…”

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Babbling in infants with cerebral palsy

Levin¹

1999

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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This study quantitatively describes the babbling of eight 1-year-old infants with cerebral palsy. Ninety-minute samples of vocalizations were analysed in terms of the well-formedness of the syllables and phonetic structure of canonical syllables. The onset of canonical babbling was delayed in most subjects, all had restricted phonetic repertoires and produced monosyllabic utterances only. The importance of the development of controlled expiration to drive the speech system for babbling is highlighted. The ® ndings challenge the robustness theories of babbling development, point to evidence of dysarthria in babbling, and justify early intervention. Methodological issues in the study of babbling are discussed, and suggestions for further research are o ered.

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Babbling in infants with cerebral palsy

Levin¹

1999

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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Neuropsychological Assessment

Wilson¹

1987

Psychological Evaluation of the Developmentally and Physically Disabled

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Nosology of spastic tetraplegic cerebral palsy: clinical review of fifty cases

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The aim of this study is to contribute to the definition of tetraplegic cerebral palsy (TCP) and to verify the classification criteria currently used by reviewing the clinical and neurological aspects of 50 children having non-progressive encephalopathy with neurological involvement of 4 limbs (symmetric 4-limb type, side-asymmetric type, upper-limb dominated type with or without dystonic traits). All severe diplegic patients, i.e. less upper than lower limb involvement and patients with dystonic hyperkinetic syndrome without spastic features were excluded. The data were supplied by the hospital records, evolution of motor performance and the presence or absence of epilepsy, visual problems, language disorders, intellectual impairment. All the children underwent: neurological examination, functional assessment, cognitive evaluation. Severe motor impairment was found in 80% of the patients, whose clinical characteristics led to a diagnosis of severe TCP or "true TCP" according to Hagberg, whereas 20% of them showed mild to moderate impairment with a more favorable prognosis. This group of patients complied with the classification of Michaelis who defined the quadrispastic CP types more broadly and delineated five subgroups also including cases with milder involvement (side-dominated, three-limb dominated tetraparesis). The intellectual assessment showed that, in the severely affected patients, only a small percentage had severe intellectual impairment (IQ less than 50, 37.5%), which contrasts with published data on this pathology, while the majority of the subjects showed moderate (25%) or mild intellectual impairment (32.5%) or normal cognitive function (5%).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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Neuropsychological Assessment of the Child with Cerebral Palsy

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Babbling in infants with cerebral palsy

Babbling in infants with cerebral palsy

Neuropsychological Assessment

Nosology of spastic tetraplegic cerebral palsy: clinical review of fifty cases

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