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Definition and classification of cerebral palsy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2005

Eve Blair  and
Sarah Love
Eve Blair
Affiliation:
Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia at the Telethon Institiute for Child Health Research, Western Australia.
Sarah Love
Affiliation:
Departments of Paediatric Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy, Princess Margaret Hospital, Perth, Western Australia. Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia.

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The occurrence of the International Workshop on Definition and Classification of Cerebral Palsy, in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, July 2004, was an encouraging sign of progress towards a collaborative attempt to reach an internationally accepted definition and classification system for cerebral palsy (CP). The definition given in this issue, apparently submitted by a small subset of workshop attendees, is disappointing in that it does little to address the four areas of imprecision encountered in previous definitions of CP, as described by Stanley et al. These four areas are:

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Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology , Volume 47 , Issue 8 , August 2005 , pp. 510
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© 2005 Mac Keith Press
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