Does a child with cerebral palsy never walk? This is a question of great concern to every parent. What is certain is that not all children with cerebral palsy will learn to walk. However, for each child, it depends on the severity of his or her condition. In addition, many children with cerebral palsy are not able to walk until after the age of 7 or even 10. Therefore, it is important to treat this issue with caution and not to give up on it too soon. In terms of the child’s needs, perhaps other areas of skill training are more important. It has been suggested that for a child to live a happy and independent life, the following areas are essential: 1) self-confidence and self-love; 2) good communication and relationships with others; 3) self-care, such as being able to eat and dress themselves; 4) being able to move from one place to another by themselves; 5) being able to walk by themselves. The above five aspects are arranged in the order of their importance in the daily life of the number of people. As you can see, walking is not the most important skill that a child needs. Therefore, even if a child cannot walk, there are many more important aspects that should be taken care of, such as eating, washing, dressing, playing, and communicating. There are also many ways to help children who cannot walk get to where they want to go, such as using wheelchairs, hand-cranked tricycles, and special walking frames. First, let’s understand how we can get children with cerebral palsy to communicate and build good relationships with people well. We know that in order to have normal language ability, human beings must have normal hearing, normal movement of the brain language center (development and maturation of the brain) and articulatory organs (breathing, larynx, oropharynx, nose and jaw, tongue, lips, soft palate, etc., which constitute accurate pronunciation. Language will appear only when the nervous system develops to a certain level of maturity. Language development and motor development are synchronized, and motor development is the basis, and the communication ability develops at the same time. (Delayed language development is mostly a result of backward brain development.) In other words, a series of instructions to the surrounding articulatory organs must be given under the complex and precise control of the central nervous system in order to complete the expression of language. Children with cerebral palsy, on the other hand, suffer from brain damage, which in turn affects the normal development of hearing function, brain language center function and articulatory organs, eventually leading to delayed language development and language impairment. As we know, human language and intelligence are formed through practice, so it is important to seize the opportunity to provide targeted rehabilitation training for children with cerebral palsy who have language impairment. The best time for language training is every morning (8 to 12 o’clock). For those who do not speak, initially call, ask, or stimulate them to speak. You can also induce speech with sudden and strong stimulation by surprising things or things that the patient is curious about. You can also take the patient to the highway, park, etc. to watch cars, animals, birds, etc. while teaching them to induce speech. For patients who do not bite the words really and stutter, the speed should be slow when coaching, and the key words should be coached repeatedly until the words are really spit out. When teaching, let the patient watch the mouth shape and practice little by little. Then repeatedly train from short sentences to long sentences, and also teach tongue twisters, etc., but must be patient in order to cultivate success. Language training is based on the local language, starting with the common language, and it is best to use the closest person or a companion as a coach. The child patient should be put into a group of children of the same age to play, and be induced to speak and communicate linguistically in a new environment, under the conditioned stimulation of the partners. While training children with cerebral palsy in language, they also train their intelligence. They should watch more beneficial TV (3 meters away), practice compositions, long sentences, recite poems, read aloud texts, teach methods of calculation, stack blocks and other training and games to improve their language communication skills and IQ. Next, learn how to improve the ability of children with cerebral palsy to take care of themselves (such as being able to eat and dress themselves). Eating is an essential activity for human beings every day, so systematic feeding rehabilitation for children with cerebral palsy is quite important and is an advanced part of the treatment. For children with cerebral palsy, the first thing to learn in eating rehabilitation is to move to the table, and many methods of movement have been learned in previous day classes in order to accomplish this. It is important to combine these methods into a plan for moving to the dining room twice per meal, a plan that involves each child. Regardless of the method applied, the child must move to the table by himself/herself or with the help of different tools: walking independently, pushing the chair forward, wearing a support, crawling and rolling on the bed set up, or using a crawler to move forward. In short, each should apply what he or she can to move toward the dining room. To accommodate the slowest-moving child, place his dining room table closest to the door. The child who arrives first can participate in the preparation of the meal or listen to the radio or read the newspaper. It is important that they make the most of this free time and not be bored with waiting. The next thing to do is to take the meal, which can be done by training the child to lay a board or plastic sheet on the bed. Mealtime itself is a very necessary and good subject. All children must drink and eat on their own, but of course most need assistance from others or tools. The guide should eat with the child, while instructing and assisting the child to learn the various movements of the meal. For example, some children will have coracoacusis once they take a spoon into the mouth, so they should be instructed to bend their knees to suppress coracoacusis so that the spoon can be entered. Some children cannot hold the spoon, so you can make some spoons with handles or tie the spoon to the child’s hand. Children who have too much difficulty should be fed by a guide, but they should be taught to gradually learn to eat by themselves. Both assistance and feeding should be gradually reduced, and finally the aim of completing the subject independently is achieved. Finally, let’s see how to carry out effective functional rehabilitation of walking for children with cerebral palsy. For human beings, walking requires two legs to step out interactively and support the weight with one leg, so it is not possible to walk without standing on one leg. In particular, children with spastic cerebral palsy often have one knee extended and the other knee extended with it. As a parent or rehabilitator, you should hold the knee of a child with cerebral palsy in the supine position at an early age to practice interactive femoral and knee flexion and extension movements, which also facilitate the completion of interactive hand-foot movements in the four-crawl position or the high-crawl position. If the child can move his legs interactively, he can be taught to ride a tricycle, and if he cannot pedal, his legs can be fixed by tying them up, and he can also practice by pedaling a sewing machine. In addition, these children with cerebral palsy can be taught to use a roller car or a wooden three-wheeled bicycle. When walking, you can use the balance bar to practice stepping, or you can build two bamboo poles, or bolt two ropes to support walking, the height should be appropriate. When practicing walking with a hand-held cart, note that the cart should not be too fast and the front should be pressed with something heavy, which can be used in the family. In the rehabilitation process, we can also use crutches and walkers to help the child with cerebral palsy walk in a timely manner in order to get a good walking pattern. When allowing the child to walk on his or her own, it is important to take one step at a time and aim for a distance of 2-3 meters to prevent falls or poor posture. It is important to emphasize that the child with cerebral palsy must be trained to walk with an appropriate walking cart, and after walking in this position, the child can be switched to a cane; and an inappropriate walking cart can lead to an incorrect walking position for the child, and although it can help the heavy older child move, no progress can be gained. It is also possible to let the child with cerebral palsy walk with crutches. The column crutches can walk long distances for children with spasticity, but premature walking with crutches can cause the body to flex, and the length of the crutches and the height of the grasp should be as directed by the doctor.