Question
My child is 2 years old and still can’t speak, and doesn’t smile much. He also doesn’t reach out to grab things. What’s going on?
Answer
The main symptoms of pediatric cerebral palsy include abnormal posture and muscle tone, muscle weakness, involuntary movements, and ataxia. It often accompanies sensory, cognitive, communication, and behavioral disorders, as well as secondary skeletal muscle abnormalities, and may include seizures. According to guidelines, there are many causes of non-progressive central nervous system motor disorders that arise from various reasons after one month of birth, with prenatal factors being the most common, including genetic and chromosomal diseases, congenital infections, brain malformations or developmental abnormalities, fetal brain ischemia and hypoxia, and damage to the basal ganglia due to ventriculomegaly or periventricular white matter softening.