What are the main symptoms and manifestations of cerebral palsy in children?

Patient's question:

The child of others can speak at the age of 1, but my child is already 2 years old and still cannot speak. Moreover, they don't smile much and don't reach out to grab things. What is going on with this?

Doctor's answer:

Clinically characterized by abnormal posture and muscle tone, muscle weakness, involuntary movements, and ataxia, often accompanied by sensory, cognitive, communication, behavioral disorders, and secondary skeletal muscle abnormalities, and may include seizures. Guidelines for non-progressive central motor disorders caused by various reasons within one month after birth: prenatal factors are the most common, including genetic and chromosomal diseases, congenital infections, brain malformations or dysplasia, fetal brain ischemia and hypoxia, ventricular or periventricular white matter softening causing damage to the basal ganglia.

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