8.4 Cerebral Palsy—Level 3

Aim: To describe some gross motor features of children with Spastic cerebralpalsy at the NationalChildren’s Hospital in 2018Methods: A cross -sectional study combined with quantitative method was conducted on 112 patients withSpastic cerebralpalsy, using GMFCS scale.Results: Gross motor according to GMFCS: 54,5% of cases at level 5; 21,4% of cases at level 4 and 24,1%of cases at level 3. There were no distinction between thepercentage of gross motor level based on GMFCS andfeatures of age, gender, birth weight, gestational age at birth, types of birth (p>0,05). There were a statisticallysignificant relationship between gross motor according to GMFCS and time of palsy and spastic cerebraldiagnosis (p<0,05).Conlussion: Most of the patients have gross motor at level 5 according to GMFCS, the result shows arelationship between gross motor and time of palsy and spastic cerebral diagnosis.

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Prevalence of Speech Problems and the Use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication in Children With Cerebral Palsy: A Registry-Based Study in Norway

Perspectives on Augmentative and Alternative Communication ◽

10.1044/aac19.1.12 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 12-20 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Guro Andersen ◽

Tone R. Mjøen ◽

Torstein Vik

Keyword(s):

Cerebral Palsy ◽

Motor Function ◽

Gestational Age ◽

Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽

Alternative Communication ◽

Gross Motor ◽

Gross Motor Function ◽

Children With Cerebral Palsy ◽

Communicative Abilities ◽

Normal Speech

Abstract This study describes the prevalence of speech problems and the use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in children with cerebral palsy (CP) in Norway. Information on the communicative abilities of 564 children with CP born 1996–2003, recorded in the Norwegian CP Registry, was collected. A total of 270 children (48%) had normal speech, 90 (16%) had slightly indistinct speech, 52 (9%) had indistinct speech, 35 (6%) had very indistinct speech, 110 children (19%) had no speech, and 7 (1%) were unknown. Speech problems were most common in children with dyskinetic CP (92 %), in children with the most severe gross motor function impairments and among children being totally dependent on assistance in feeding or tube-fed children. A higher proportion of children born at term had speech problems when compared with children born before 32 weeks of gestational age 32 (p > 0.001). Among the 197 children with speech problems only, 106 (54%) used AAC in some form. Approximately 20% of children had no verbal speech, whereas ~15% had significant speech problems. Among children with either significant speech problems or no speech, only 54% used AAC in any form.

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