Sarala is a 4-year-old girl with an analysis of Ataxic Cerebral Palsy. She was born at 39 weeks because of a low fetal heart rate. We do not know what instigated the low fetal heart rate, and we might never know. She appeared okay at birth, but it became obvious over the next few months that there was something erroneous. She has microcephaly (small head boundary), trigonocephaly (her forward lobe is smaller in proportion to the rest of her brain, occasioning the metopic sutures fusing prematurely), hypotonia (low muscle tone), apraxia, dysarthria, and global developmental adjournments. She has been getting PT and OT services from about 7 months and speech from 16 months of age. She comprehends a great deal, but her major trouble is motor planning and implementation and having her body do what she desires it to do. Only then, after many failed efforts, do we plan to make her undergo stem cell treatment in India.

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