Understanding Spastic Diplegia
The six pages below cover the fundamentals — what spastic diplegia is, why it happens, what it can look like, how it gets diagnosed, and how it’s classified. Start wherever your own question is; you don’t need to read them in order.
Getting answers
How It's Diagnosed
What a typical diagnostic process involves, and who’s on the team.
The paperwork term
GMFCS & Severity Levels
The plain-language version of the scale you’ll see in every report.
The bigger picture
Spastic Diplegia vs. Other Types of CP
Where spastic diplegia fits under the cerebral palsy umbrella.