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Spastic Cerebral Palsy - Answer✔✔-Most common type.
Children will have one or more tight muscle groups which limit movement.
Characterized by stiff and jerky movements.
Have trouble moving from one position to the next.
STIFF AND DIFFICULT MOVEMENT.
Athetoid Cerebral Palsy - Answer✔✔-10%
Caused by damage to the cerebellum or basal ganglia.
Characterized by involuntary, purposeless movements.
Interferes with speaking, feeding, reaching, grasping.
Low muscle tone and bad posture.
INVOLUNTARY AND UNCONTROLLED MOVEMENT.
Ataxic Cerebral Palsy - Answer✔✔-Low muscle tone and poor coordination.
Children will look unsteady and shaky.
Walk with their feet wide apart.
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5-10%
DISTURBED SENSE OF BALANCE AND DEPTH PERCEPTION.
Mixed Cerebral Palsy - Answer✔✔-10%
Have injuries to both the pyramidal and extrapyramidal areas of the brain.
Usually spastic and athetoid.
Cerebral Palsy - Answer✔✔-a group of chronic conditions affecting body movements and
muscle coordination.
not curable.
Characterized by inability to fully control motor function.
Intellectual Disability - Answer✔✔-a disability characterized by significant limitations both in
intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, which cover many everyday social and
practical skills.
What score on the IQ test indicates a limitation in intellectual functioning? - Answer✔✔-70 or as
high as 75
Conceptual Skills - Answer✔✔-language and literacy; money, time, and number concepts; and
self-direction
Social Skills - Answer✔✔-interpersonal skills, social responsibility, self-esteem, gullibility,
wariness, social problem solving, and the ability to follow rules/obey laws and to avoid being
victimized.
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