THE ROLE OF SENSORIAL DEPRIVATION IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN WITH INFANTILE CEREBRAL PARALYSIS

126 children from I to 14 years of age with spastic forms of ICP were investigated with multimodal methods of evoked potentials (visual, acoustic, cognitive). The analyses of the correlation of different clinical parameters has shown a significant direct correlation between severity of movement and cognitive dysfunction. Cognitive dysfunction had direct correlation with the level of visual dysfunction. The level of cognitive development of children with the same level of movement problems depended on severity of dysfunction of sensorial systems. Latent visual and cognitive evoked potentials had direct correlations in hemiplegic children. The result of the investigation has shown a specific role of afferent sensor stimuli in the development of cognitive functioning of children with ICP.