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Professor Allan Colver, professor of community child health at University of Newcastle, on cerebral palsy


'Parents can be upset when their child is diagnosed with cerebral palsy, but they can be reassured that most children with cerebral palsy experience similar quality of life to that of other children their age. Pity and sorrow should not be directed to disable children, because our findings indicate they experience most of life as do non-disabled children.'

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