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This was the paradox described in the texts on cerebral palsy. The lesion was in the central nervous system.
En esta etapa, Julián comenzó a desarrollar habilidades de comunicación y lenguaje. La Dra. Chávez Torres describe cómo el cerebro de Julián estaba procesando patrones de sonido y lenguaje, y cómo comenzó a balbucear y hacer gestos para comunicarse con su entorno.
The brain of an infant, as Chávez Torres emphasizes, is not a finished product. It is a construction site. Mateo had suffered an insult—likely hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy at birth, though the records were fuzzy. The damage was real. But the plasticity was also real.
