So while cerebral palsy is one cause, it’s also caused by other conditions like stroke and traumatic brain injury. In this article, we will focus on spastic hemiplegia due to cerebral palsy.

In general, hemiplegia is a type of unilateral cerebral palsy that causes paralysis on only one side of the body. It's due to an injury to the spinal cord or the brain.

"For the first year Oliver was just slightly delayed with motor skills," Fulkerson said. "Finally when he was 23 months he was diagnosed with left-side hemiplegia cerebral palsy.

SDCP is one of three forms of spastic cerebral palsy: spastic hemiplegia, which causes spasticity on one side of the body, usually the arm; spastic quadriplegia, which affects all four limbs, the ...

Natalie Dorsey, a 10-month-old from New Windsor, has spastic hemiplegia cerebral palsy and receives occupational therapy via telehealth from Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore.