The identification of whether a newborn has cerebral palsy lacks specific indicators and relies mainly on clinical recognition, including the following: first, the presence of high-risk factors causing brain injury from before birth to one month after birth; second, the presence of early symptoms of brain injury in infancy; third, the presence of neurological abnormalities of brain injury, such as central motor deficits as well as postural and reflex abnormalities. For these children, necessary ancillary tests can be performed to assist in the diagnosis. For example, cranial CT can help to understand whether there are abnormalities in the intracranial structures, EEG has special significance for whether cerebral palsy is combined with epilepsy and the risk of combined epilepsy, and cranial MRI can better show the characteristics of the lesion of periventricular white matter softening and the combined presence of other brain tissue abnormalities, providing an imaging basis for the early diagnosis of the child. In the neonatal period, it is not possible to determine that the child has cerebral palsy, and close observation of growth and development is required.