[Logopedic and psychological-pedagogic maintenance of infants with cerebral palsy].

The problem of perinatal pathology of the nervous system in infants is getting more and more urgent due to the progressive growth of the frequency of cerebral disorders in newborns. This pathology leads to the development of severe motor and speech disorders which inhibit the development of communication skills and social adaptation of children in future. Perinatal factors cause not only neurologic and mental disorders but impede and distort the formation of pre-speech functions, basic for speech development, in infants thus worsening their disability. Patients with cerebral palsy make up 57% of children acknowledged as disabled. Therefore, logopedic diagnostic methods are needed to allow identification of the structure of pre-speech defects in infant period of life, prediction of the level of nervous-mental development, planning and realization of a correction-educational route from the first months of life.