CEREBRAL PALSY

Resource #
DVD • CPWD489W

Price $89.95

Program Contents: 19 minutes

Captioning: None

Copyright Date: 1991

This program covers the causes, symptoms, and ranges of possible treatments of cerebral palsy; including the relationship between physical and mental handicaps, and the role of medications and physical therapy in treatment. Animation illustrates the areas of the brain damaged in people with cerebral palsy.

Interviews with professionals list such causes as maternal infections during pregnancy, complications during childbirth, and infant head injuries. Surgery is examined as a means of easing spasticity in certain people.