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Background

CP is the most common childhood-onset physical disability³ and the most common lifelong neurologic disability.⁴ Primary care pediatricians are called to create medical homes for people with CP, including initiating discussions of CP diagnosis as early as possible.⁵ This is complicated by physicians across specialties (including pediatricians) variably interpreting the 2006 CP definition, leading some to conceptualize CP as a “bad term.”^2,6 Growing data on CP genetics,⁷ lifelong CP manifestations,⁸ CP phenotypes,⁹ and prediction of future motor disability¹⁰ should facilitate early, accurate, and consistent CP diagnoses….