Early identification and intervention in cerebral palsy
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Early Diagnosis and Early Intervention in Cerebral Palsy
This paper reviews the opportunities and challenges for early diagnosis and early intervention in cerebral palsy (CP). CP describes a group of disorders of the development of movement and posture, causing activity limitation that is attributed to disturbances that occurred in the fetal or infant brain. Therefore, the paper starts with a summary of relevant information from developmental neurosc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0012-1622
DOI: 10.1111/dmcn.12531