Objectives: To describe risk factors, clinical characteristics and classification of cerebral palsy. Methods: prospective, case series study. Results: We studied 130 child with cerebral palsy: 57.7% of mothers had abnormal prehistory, most of mothers had disorder memsens; 33.8% children were premature infants, 36.2% were low-birthweight infants, 30.8% had birth asphyxia.