Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducts cerebral palsy (CP) tracking or surveillance programs in different populations across the United States. These programs collect information about the characteristics of children with CP, serve as the basis for future research and inform strategies for prevention.

The CDC reports the following data & statistics:

Prevalence and Characteristics

• Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common motor disability during childhood.•
• Population-based studies from around the world report prevalence estimates of CP ranging from 1.5 to more than 4 per 1,000 live births or children of a defined age range.•
• CDC tracks CP through the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) CP Network. ADDM CP Network 2006 data show that:
  • There were 142,338 8-year-old children in the population from Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, and Wisconsin, representing approximately 4% of the U.S. population of 8-year-olds.
  • CP prevalence varied by site, ranging from 2.9 per 1,000 8-year-olds in Wisconsin to 3.8 per 1,000 8-year-olds in Georgia. The average prevalence of CP across the four sites was approximately 3.3 per 1,000 or 1 in 303 8-year-old children in the United States.
  • CP prevalence was significantly lower among Hispanic children than among Black or White children.
  • The prevalence among White and Black children varied across the sites.
  • Spastic CP was the most common type of CP, found among approximately 80% of children with CP.
  • CP, on average, occurred 1.2 times more frequently among boys than among girls.
  • Three ADDM sites participated in the previous 2002 surveillance year (Alabama, Georgia, and Wisconsin). The average CP prevalence across these three sites in 2002 was 3.6 per 1,000 8-year-olds. This was not meaningfully different than the average prevalence across the three sites in 2006 (3.4 per 1,000).
  • In 2006, 56% of children with CP were able to walk independently, while 33% had limited or no walking ability.
  • Another study found that 41% of children with CP were limited in their ability to crawl, walk, run, or play, and 31% needed to use special equipment such as walkers or wheelchairs.•
• United Cerebral Palsy estimates that approximately 764,000 U.S.children and adults manifest one or more symptoms of CP.•

Co-Occurring Developmental Disabilities•

• Approximately 60% of 8-year-old children with CP had another developmental disability.
• More than 40% of children with CP had intellectual disability
• 35% had epilepsy
• more than 15% had vision impairment
• Nearly one-quarter of children with CP had both intellectual disability and epilepsy.

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