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Cerebral palsy is the most common type of physical disability impacting on 1 in 500 children, with… A National Initiative for Increasing Sports Participation among Australians with a Disability… Motor Accident Insurance Commission Queensland Teaching and Community Service Rehabilitation Research Fellowship in Physical Activity and Disability… research program he aims to generate the knowledge required to empower people with disabilities to… purpose (to promote participation in sport by people with disabilities by minimising the impact of…
A/Prof Sean Tweedy leads the Para Sport and Adapted Physical Activity Research Group in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University of Queensland. Through his applied research program he aims to generate the knowledge required to empower people with disabilities to pursue self-di …
Sean developed the Adapted Physical Activity Program (APAP), a theory-driven physical activity promotion program for community dwelling people disabilities. A controlled clinical trial demonstrated its efficacy in people with acquired brain injury, providing impetus for its implementation into the A …
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This project focuses on how young adults with an intellectual disability construct their futures… Experience of family members, including siblings, of having a child with a disability in the family.… to or secondary to disability, who are in out-of-home care: A systematic review… Parenting employment-decisions and family functioning in community context: Normative features and disability specific factors… Family functioning in families with a child with a disability… with intellectual disability, family functioning in families with a child with a disability, and… Families of children with disabilities have been the subject of a number of myths, some of which…
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Dr Cuskelly is the Director of the long running Down Syndrome Research Program based at The University of Queensland. In addition to her interests in the development of individuals with Down syndrome she has research interests in the psycho-social functioning of individuals with intel …
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6 to 9) with students with developmental disabilities. It will also evaluate teacher-developed interventions in written expression.''… A day in the life: Using photographs to scaffold literacy development in young adults with intellectual disabilities… Intervention for written expression: Middle school students with developmental disabilities… Literacy, teacher education, literacy and intellectual disability, teaching and learning in… possible for people with intellectual disabilities. Until recently, limited research has been undertaken…
Literacy, teacher education, literacy and intellectual disability, teaching and learning in higher education
Associate Professor Karen Moni has had extensive experience teaching and researching in the field of English and literacy education. Her research interests include adolescent literacy and li …
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Preservice teachers' discomfort levels toward people with disabilities… The effectiveness of a choice intervention staff training program in residential and community settings for adults with an intellectual disability… Female carers of adults with an intellectual disability are increasing in our communities as those…
Annemaree Carroll is Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Educational Psychology within the School of Education at The University of Queensland. Her research activities focus on the social emotional learning of children and adolescents, and the im …
Professor Carroll's ARC Linkage-funded research has partnered with Queensland State High Schools to examine how embedding social and emotional wellbeing into school-wide policies, classroom practices, and self and social strategies of students enhances learning, behavioural, and social outcomes. A n …
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A central concern of the current Queensland Bilateral - Commonwealth-State/Territory Disability… The politics of entitlement and personalisation: Perspectives on a proposed National Disability Long-Term Care and Support Scheme in Australia… Identifying factors for successful integration of persons with disabilities post motor vehicle accidents (MVA) using technology in the workplace… for people with complex neurological disability. She is Head of Occupational Therapy at The… safe, courtesy, friendliness, helpfulness and being aware of invisible disabilities and specific…
Dr Fleming is an occupational therapist and researcher in the field of brain injury rehabilitation. Her PhD completed in 1996 was on the topic of the development of self-awareness following traumatic brain injury. She has continued to pursue collaborative research on role of metacognitive factors in …
Dr Fleming is the developer of the Self-Awareness of Deficits Interview which is a widely used assessment in brain injury rehabilitation and research around the world. Her work on the transition from hospital to home after brain injury helped inform the development of the Acquired Brain Injury Trans …
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but not in work disability prevention. Self management provides the worker with opportunities to… Predictors of disability in patients with chronic low back pain… investigate other measurement properties of the GAPP FCE using populations with injury or disability.…
Jenny was appointed Professor of Occupational Therapy in 1997. At the end of 2015, Jenny took early retirement from UQ. In January 2016, she was awarded the title of Emeritus Professor of The University of Queensland. Jenny is now using her time to facilitate and enable a new generation of clinica …
Emeritus Professor Jenny Strong's work into the psychosocial aspects of chronic pain is important. In the mid-1980's, she realised that while the biolgical aspects of pain were being increasingly well-researched, the psych-social aspects of pain were, at best, being mis-understood.
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with an orthodox treatment of advice and graded exercise on pain and disability in chronic whiplash.… Earning and conversion handicaps and the welfare economics of disability… kidney disease(CKD). Ongoing interests include the economics of disability and insurance, compensable… disabilities, viz. an ‘earning handicap’ and a ‘conversion handicap’. In this article, these concepts are…
Luke Connelly is Professor of Health Economics at the Centre for the Business and Economics of Health. He also holds a Professorial appointment (part-time) at The University of Bologna, to which he was appointed in 2017 via the Italian “Direct Call” (link) process. In 2019 he was appointed as Honora …
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but not in work disability prevention. Self management provides the worker with opportunities to… Changes in pain, disability, and motor performance in response to three common modes of cervical training IFOMT, Rotterdam, 2008… examined the strength of the association between reported levels of pain and disability from 84…
The research focuses on the evaluation and management of neck pain from a physical therapy perspective
The research in the Cervical Spine and Whiplash Research Unit in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences has an applied clinical focus. Two models of neck pain are being investigated, idio …
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Beating the Barriers: Recruitment of People with Intellectual Disability to Participate in Research… 'We need to talk' : Genomics and disability… Background: The health status of people with intellectual disability is poor, yet very little…
Assoc Prof Fran Boyle is a social scientist and health services researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences Research. Fran's background is in psychology and public health and her research focuses on people’s lived experiences of health, health services and the health system. Fran's research ex …
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Association between disability status and dental attendance in Australia — a population‐based study… Disability is a key social determinant of health. The objective of this study was to test the…