Introduction: Impairment is the direct exteriorization of disease consequences, and disability is restriction or absence of any activity due to impairment. Objectives: To identify impairments and disabilities of psychomotor development and characteristics of patients treated at the Department of Investigation, Teaching and Integral Rehabilitation of Development Disabilities. Design: Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study. Setting: Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitacion Dra. Adriana Rebaza Flores, Callao, Peru. Participants: Patients treated from 0 to 7 years with definite diagnosis and no evident mental retardation. Interventions: From 5 795 patients attended in the period 2006-2008 we reviewed a sample of 400 medical records, and studied impairments and disabilities and their characteristics. Main outcome measures: Impairments and disabilities of psychomotor development. Result...

Objective: to evaluate the relationship between severity of locomotion and communication incapacities and scholarship in patients with brain palsy. Methods: cross-sectional study carried out in 316 patients from 3-12 years of age with cerebral palsy attended from July 2016 and June 2017 at the Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación "Dra. Adriana Rebaza Flores" AMISTAD PERU-JAPÓN, Lima-Peru. Results: mean age was 6 years (range 3-12); 57% were males. Spastic cerebral palsy was found in 69.7% followed by dyskinetic cerebral palsy in 20%; 69.6% were in the school and more than 50% of them had severe locomotion and communications incapacities. An inverse relationship was found between severity of locomotion and communications incapacities and scholarship. Conclusions: Children with cerebral palsy who have locomotion and communications incapacities tended to have less school attendance.