Cerebral Palsy Disability
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13. Inclusão e tecnologia assistiva / Inclusion and assistivy tecnology
Does a partnership between Health and Education professionals using the resources of the Assistive Technology favor the inclusion of students with cerebral palsy in the regular schools? From this question, a project was developed linking the knowledge of the Educational, Assistive Technology, Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy areas into the Research Gr
Publicado em: 2008
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14. Evaluation of sensibility, upper extremity motor function and functional performance in children with cerebral palsy / Avaliação da sensibilidade, função motora de membros superiores e desempenho funcional de crianças portadoras de paralisia cerebral
Children with cerebral palsy can show somatosensorial handicap in fine motor skills and, in additional with motor problems, they may influence the development of manual abilities and the capacity to execute living daily skills. The objective of this study was to evaluate sensibility, upper extremity skills and performance in self care of children with spasti
Publicado em: 2007
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15. Efeitos da terapia de movimento induzido por restrição na funcionalidade de crianças com paralisia cerebral
The spastic hemiplegia due to cerebral palsy may lead to impairments in musculoskeletal body structures and functions and limit childs performance in activities and tasks at home, school and community contexts. The upper limb dysfunctions due to cerebral lesions often compromise the use of the affected extremity in childrens daily activities, bimanual abilit
Publicado em: 2007
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16. CLOSE UP, NO ONE IS ABNORMAL: THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITIES OF PEOPLE WITH DEFICIENCY IN EXTENDED EDUCATIONAL TRAJECTORIES / DE PERTO, NINGUÉM É ANORMAL: A CONSTRUÇÃO DISCURSIVA DE IDENTIDADES, EM NARRATIVAS DE TRAJETÓRIAS ESCOLARES LONGAS, DE PESSOAS COM DEFICIÊNCIA
This work presents the profiles of identity configuration, of seven people with different congenital impairments (blindness, low vision, cerebral palsy and mielomelingocele), constructed from the narratives of their educational trajectory - from infants education to university. Grounded in a soioconstructivist conception of language, it develops an analysis
Publicado em: 2006
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17. Educar para a cidadania: promovendo habilidades de auto-advocacia em grupos de pessoas com deficiência.
This study part of the problem of special education assistance be acceded to question how we could act so that people with intellectual disability and with cerebral palsy could be been abused for the exercise of self-advocacy. From a historical review of the self-advocacy movement of persons with disabilities, of the discussion on human rights education, and
Publicado em: 2005
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18. Rehabilitation in cerebral palsy.
Cerebral palsy is the most frequent physical disability of childhood onset. Over the past four decades, prevalence has remained remarkably constant at 2 to 3 per 1,000 live births in industrialized countries. In this article I concentrate on the rehabilitation and outcome of patients with cerebral palsy. The epidemiologic, pathogenetic, and diagnostic aspect
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19. BOOK REVIEWS: Cerebral Palsy: The Child and Young Person (Management of Disability Series).
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20. The changing epidemiology of cerebral palsy.
AIM: To determine the prevalence of cerebral palsy in a specific population. METHODS: Multiple sources of ascertainment were used to create and maintain a register of all cases of cerebral palsy born to mothers resident in the counties of Merseyside and Cheshire in the years 1966 to 1989. Denominator data of infant births and deaths from 1966 to 1981 were ob
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21. Cerebral palsy: social class differences in prevalence in relation to birthweight and severity of disability.
STUDY OBJECTIVE--The aim of the study was to examine the possible influence of social class on the prevalence of cerebral palsy. DESIGN--The study was a retrospective population based survey of all cases of cerebral palsy. SETTING--The study involved all cases of cerebral palsy born to residents in the Eastern Health Board area of the Republic of Ireland bet
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22. Cerebral palsy and stereotactic neurosurgery: long term results.
A retrospective study was performed on a group of 28 patients with cerebral palsy, who had undergone a stereotactic encephalotomy for hyperkinesia or dystonia. The mean postoperative follow up period was 21 years (range: 12-27). Eighteen patients were available for follow up, nine had died, and one could not be traced. A positive result was obtained in eight
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23. Annual audit of three year outcome in very low birthweight infants.
Annual odds ratios, standardised for known confounding variables, were used to examine trends in outcome at 3 years of age among 1499 infants of less than 1500 g birth weight admitted to a regional referral centre between 1980 and 1989. Despite improved survival, the chance of survival with a major disability or with cerebral palsy was unchanged. The likelih
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24. Cerebral palsy and neonatal encephalopathy.
A retrospective cohort study was carried out to test the hypothesis that children born at term with cerebral palsy with signs of neurological dysfunction preceded by depression at birth (termed neonatal encephalopathy) differ from those without such signs in the frequency of antenatal and perinatal factors, and in the severity and characteristics of their im