Cerebral palsy (CP), the predominant neurologic problem of VLBW (<1.5 kg) children, occurred in 50/839 (6%) of our VLBW inborn singleton survivors during 1983-1991.

We sought to examine the development at 20 months corrected age of all 50 singleton VLBW infants (BW 1014 g, GA 28 wks, 54% male) diagnosed with CP born at our center from `83-'91 compared to VLBW infants without CP (BW 1029 g, GA 28 wks), matched by bwt (± 250 g), gest. age (± 2 wks), race and sex to the next child without neurosensory impairment at 20 months. Social risk as determined by marital status, race and maternal education were similar.

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