Challenges with cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy is defined as a disorder of movement, typically due to trauma at birth. These motor challenges range in severity from child to child, and are oftentimes accompanied by secondary issues, such as cognitive, or learning challenges, also ranging in severity and frequency.
Some children with CP have significant speech challenges that essentially leave them nonverbal. It is not uncommon for a child with CP to require AAC to support their speech and learning needs. It should always be a priority to find and engage a child's spirit - that is what often drives them.
New opportunities for children with CP
When supporting a child who has cerebral palsy, one should work to provide opportunities to connect, relate, and learn from important people in their lives. AAC is valuable because communication both builds relationships between people and is also the foundation for learning. And so, AAC can help children with complex communication needs reach their potential both socially and academically.
It's within these myriad challenges that AAC supports must provide multiple modes of communication necessary to support varying individual needs.
Links to CP sites
Cerebral Palsy
St. Louis Children's Hospital
UCP
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