JULY 2011: Focus on function and context therapy

In this July podcast, Dr Peter Baxter, Editor in Chief of Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology discusses two papers: ‘Focus on function: a cluster, randomized controlled trial comparing child- versus context-focused intervention for young children with cerebral palsy’ by Mary C Law, Johanna Darrah, Nancy Pollock, Brenda Wilson, Dianne J Russell, Stephen D Walter, Peter Rosenbaum, Barb Galuppi, and ‘Context therapy: a new intervention approach for children with cerebral palsy’ by Johanna Darrah, Mary C Law, Nancy Pollock, Brenda Wilson, Dianne J Russell, Stephen D Walter, Peter Rosenbaum, Barb Galuppi. Dr Peter Baxter talks to Mary Law (School of Rehabilitation Science and CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada) and Eva Brogen Carlberg (Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden) who wrote a commentary in the July issue of Developmental Medicin3 & Child Neurology entitled: ‘Instead of certainty we have search …’. Read the papers: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.03962.x/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.03959.x/abstract Read the commentary: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.03979.x/abstract