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Hanna, Steven E.; Rosenbaum, Peter L.; Bartlett, Doreen J.; Palisano, Robert J.; Walter, Stephen D.; Avery, Lisa; Russell, Dianne J. – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2009
This paper reports the construction of gross motor development curves for children and youth with cerebral palsy (CP) in order to assess whether function is lost during adolescence. We followed children previously enrolled in a prospective longitudinal cohort study for an additional 4 years, as they entered adolescence and young adulthood. The…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Young Adults, Classification, Motor Development
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Ball, Thomas S.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1977
An automated procedure for range of motion training was tried with two cerebral palsied retarded young men. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Electromechanical Aids, Mental Retardation, Motion
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Love, Russell J.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1980
The adequacy of biting, sucking, swallowing, and chewing as well as the presence or absence of nine infantile oral reflexes were assessed in 60 cerebral palsied individuals (ages 3 to 23). (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Articulation (Speech), Cerebral Palsy, Exceptional Child Research
Ottman, Ronald A. – 1980
Attitudes toward their ambulatory status of two groups of cerebral palsied (50 wheelchair status and 54 crutches and braces status) adolescents and young adults were compared. Analysis of questionnaire and demographic survey responses indicated that the wheelchair group viewed ambulation with crutches and braces in a more favorable light than did…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Attitudes, Cerebral Palsy