What is Cerebral Palsy, its Effects, and How Does it Change Over Time?

Cerebral palsy is really a general term for a brain injury that happens at one point in time, but when you hear the word cerebral palsy, it means that parts of the brain were damaged as a result of one event or potentially a few events that happened close in time.
But once the injury happens.
It’s static.
It doesn’t change.
It doesn’t get worse.
What may change over time are the effects of the brain damage.
How does it affect their ability to think, to speak, to function?
Can the child walk?
Can the child run, kick a soccer ball?
Can the child take a scissor and cut a straight line?
Can they write?
There are any number of impairments that can arise when there is an injury to the brain that falls under the rubric of cerebral palsy.