somatosensory evoked potentials in children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy alterations were monitored of somatosensory evoked potentials in children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy and these findings correlated with relevant clinical and laboratory parameters fiftyone children with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy 31 boys 20 girls age range 24168 months participated in the study abnormal somatosensory evoked potentials latencies were recorded in 23 of 34 676 cortical recordings of the median nerve and in 38 of 51 745 cortical recordings of the tibial nerve abnormal tibial nerve somatosensory evoked potentials were strongly correlated with abnormal electroencephalogram p0014 while impaired median nerve recordings were correlated with abnormal visual evoked potentials p 002 and a history of perinatal or neonatal infection p0016 furthermore perinatalneonatal infection adversely effected the recordings in both tibial and medial nerves in quadriplegic patients p0023 sensory impairment is strongly related with abnormal visual evoked potentials abnormal electroencephalogram and a history of perinatal or neonatal infection