Adaptación fisioterapéutica de una ayuda técnica en una niña con parálisis cerebral. Beneficios de dicha adaptación

Physiotherapy in Special Education allows the application of our therapeutical tools together with elements inside the educative field, which involves a benefit not only for the pupils' adaptation to the curriculum, but also for their own development and psycho-mobility progress. All this, definitively, develops their complete growth as individuals. The case of R.S. is a clear example which supports what has been stated above. It informs about a pupil with a diagnosis of cerebral palsy. She is affected by an acute choreoathetosis, which seriously interferes with the production of oral language, in spite of the fact that she transcends the upper limit of the Scale of Mental Maturity of Columbia. A cross-disciplinary team, consisting of a teacher, a physiotherapist and a psychologist, decided to adapt an alternative system of communication to the girl. The task of the physiotherapist was based on an analysis of the voluntary mobility and on the selection of a specific movement with a double purpose: to have access to an alternative system of communication and to work simultaneously the reduction of a deformity.