Such disabilities affect far more than just mobility and manual dexterity.
Children with movement disabilities learn, like every other child, from experience. Being unable to control movement reliably involves every aspect of their lives, with implications for their psychological development, their families, and the services and professions providing for them.
It is vital that those who help the children do not do everything for them, which can easily teach dependence without necessarily lowering frustration.
This can be quite a skilled job and a lot of people need special training.
Unfortunately the children's fragmented experiences may be hard enough to integrate for harmonious cognitive and emotional development, without their also facing services which are themselves fragmented into the 'multidisciplinary team'.
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