Cerebral Palsy in Children

Lucy, as many of you know has cerebral palsy, she is severly affected both mentaly and physicaly. Cerebral palsy happens as a result of brain truama and/or oxygen shortage to the brain. It affects children in many ways with symtoms ranging from slight visual problems or muscle weakness to no control of the body, blindness, deafness. Most children have different degrees of muscle tone, from loose (making them very floppy) or tight (making arms and legs look twisted and rigid.) Some children may be very physicaly affected but be very much normal mentaly, (think Steven Hawkin) he has very little control of his body yet has one of the most brilliant ...