Language Development & Cognition Development in Children with Cerebral Palsy
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BACKGROUND; Cerebral Palsy is most prevalent physical disability in children all over the world. Although with advances in maternity, obstetrics and gynecological sciences worldwide its incidence has been decreased significantly as compared past decade, yet, the developing countries are in a process to adopt such methods. From psychosocial and communication point of view, mainly impaired cognition and language ability are the factors families and people around have to manage with children of cerebral palsy. Even the children may survive to a bigger age but these areas are doubted to remain unchanged.
OBJECTIVES; Therefore, the objectives of this study are to find out relationship or differences among chronological, language and cognitive ages in children with cerebral palsy.
METHODS; This was a cross sectional survey conducted in both government and private sectors. The study was completed in four months after synopsis approval. A sample of convenience consisting 78 children (families) was used. A predefined criterion of eligibility was used. Portage guide was used to collect data. Data was collected as hands out questionnaire or interview interpreter. SPSS 16.0 was used to analyze data, descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentages were calculated. Paired sample t test was used to compare the differences in ages. Whereas the statistics of correlation were used in order to find out relationship between different sorts of ages.
RESULTS; The result showed out of total 78 respondents 49(62.8%) were males and 29(37.2%) were females. Paired sample test results showed comparison between language age and cognitive age of children that mean difference was 0.458 with standard deviation 1.81 and t value 2.237 and degree of freedom 77, significance value 0.028. Paired sample test results showed comparison between actual age and cognitive age of children that mean difference was 2.300 with standard deviation 1.63 and t value 12.389 and degree of freedom 77, significance value 0.000.
CONCLUSION; There was significant difference found in mean ages of cognitive and language ages in cerebral palsy children. Also, there was significant correlation between these ages.
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