The term «severe handicap» means the disability which requires multiple services over an extended period of time and results from amputation, blindness, cancer,
cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, deafness, heart disease, hemiplegia, mental retardation, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, neurological disorders (including stroke and epilepsy), paraplegia,
quadriplegia and other spinal cord conditions, renal failure, respiratory or pulmonary dysfunction, and any other disability specified by the Secretary in regulations he shall prescribe.
Ediger v. Johnston et al. 2013 SCC 18 Medicine — Liability of practitioners — Negligence or fault — Causation Cassidy Ediger, now 15 years old, suffered from persistent bradycardia during her birth that caused severe and permanent brain damage, leaving her with spastic
quadriplegia and
cerebral palsy.