The purpose of this study was to create and validate the Communication Function Classification System (CFCS) for children with cerebral palsy (CP), for use by a wide variety of individuals who are interested in CP. In this August podcast, Dr Peter Baxter speaks to Professor Mary Jo Cooley Heidecker (Assistant Professor, Department of Speech–Language Pathology, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR, USA) and Professor Peter Rosenabum (Professor of Paediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), who were co-authors of the paper ‘Developing and validating the Communication Function Classification System for individuals with cerebral palsy’ by Mary Jo Cooley Hidecker, Nigel Paneth, Peter L Rosenbaum, Raymond D Kent, Janet Lillie, John B Eulenberg, Ken Chester, Jr, Brenda Johnson, Lauren Michalsen, Morgan Evatt, Kara Taylor. Read the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.03996.x/abstract Read the commentary: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.04035.x/abstract

Welcome to the May 2011 edition of the Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology podcast series. In this podcast, Dr Peter Baxter, Editor in Chief of the Journal, looks at the article ‘Spectrum of neurodevelopmental disabilities in children with cerebellar malformations’ by Marie-Eve Bolduc, Adré J Du Plessis, Nancy Sullivan, Omar S Khwaja, Xun Zhang, Katherine Barnes, Richard L Robertson, Catherine Limperopoulos, and the accompanying commentary, also in the May 2011 issue: ‘Cognitive functions in children with cerebellar malformations’ by Dr Andrea Poretti. Dr Peter Baxter talks to Professor Catherine Limperopoulos (Division of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiology, Children’s National MedicalCenter, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA), one of the authors of the article and Dr Andrea Poretti (Division of Pediatric Radiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA). Read the paper here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.03929.x/abstract Read the commentary here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8749.2011.03925.x/abstract

In this podcast, Editor in Chief of Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, Dr Peter Baxter, talks to Leanne Sakzewski (Postdoctorate Research Fellow, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) and Roslyn Boyd (Scientific Director of the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) about the paper they co-authored in the April issue of the journal ‘Randomized trial of constraint-induced movement therapy and bimanual training on activity outcomes for children with congenital hemiplegia’. This paper is also discussed with Andy Gordon (Professor of Movement Science, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA) who has also written a commentary.