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Third-party disability in spouses of older people with hearing impairment… Third-party disability: Parents, grandparents and siblings of children with hearing impairment discuss family-centred care… -centred care for adults and children with communication disability. Professor Scarinci has clinical and… Hearing impairment is the most common communication disability in older people. The wide-ranging…
Professor Nerina Scarinci is the Director of Higher Degree Research Students in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences at The University of Queensland. Her main research focus is on the implementation and evaluation of patient- and family-centred …
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health, functioning and wellbeing of a person following illness, injury or disability, and to evaluate…
Jacki Liddle is a research fellow and occupational therapist researching quality of life, participation and life transitions. She uses innovative technology, along with qualitative and quantitative research methods to investigate the needs and experiences of people living with neurological condition …
Jacki's research has focussed on developing understandings of complex issues which lead to real changes in assessment, treatment and community lives. She has developed a driving cessation intervention (CarFreeMe) and contributed to the development of smartphone based remote monitoring systems for me …
Dr Ana Goode is an implementation scientist, with expertise in designing, implementing and evaluating broad-reach (e.g. telephone, SMS, digital) health behaviour change interventions in applied 'real-world' settings. Her program of research brings together training and research experience in health …
Bronwyn Clark is an epidemiologist specialising in the field of measurement of physical activity and sedentary behaviour. She is currently working as a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland and holds a National Health and Medical …
Dr Clark's research into measuring sedentary behaviour has had broad national and international impact. Measures she developed on domain specific sitting were included for the first time in the 2011/12 Australian Diabetes, Obesity, and Lifestyle study (administered to 6182 people) and influenced the …
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Walking impairment in patients with multiple sclerosis: the impact of complex motor and non-motor symptoms across the disability spectrum… disease steps in those with less disability (P<.001), whereas the 10MWT and 25FWT demonstrated more…
I am a Physiotherapy with a Clinical Speciality in the managment of persons with Neurological conditions and vestibular disorders and have been awarded a fellowship to the Australian College of Physiotherapy Neurological Fellow in 2008.
I have an interest in exploring how the systems of balance, - …
My research in persons with Multiple Sclerosis has contributed to the knowledge of clinicians in how to assess considering disability level as a key aspect to system impairment involvement to funciton. My involvment with the Whirled Foundation - previosuly Menieres Australia provided evidence to the …
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A call to action: setting the research agenda for addressing obesity and weight-related topics in children with physical disabilities… Implementation and scale-up of a consumer co-designed physical activity promotion program for people with moderate-to-profound disabilities… Studies, CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research at McMaster University, and the independent… this bias; however, it is not yet commonly used in the health sciences or disability fields. In this…
Professor John Cairney is the Head of School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences. He is an academic leader in the field of paediatric exercise medicine and child health research and is particularly well-known for his work on developmental coordination disorder (DCD) and its impact on the health …
From 2012-2015, Professor John Cairney co-led the evaluation of the multi-ministerial Children’s Mental Health Strategy in Canada, and since 2013 he has been the Scientific Lead of the screening arm of the Special Needs Strategy for Children in Ontario. These roles have allowed him to influence po …
Brooke-Mai is a Lecturer in Speech Pathology and a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist. Her research interests include the rehabilitation of motor speech disorders, brain mechanisms underpinning speech recovery, and the application of telerehabilitation to improve access to speech pathology serv …
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Musculoskeletal pain and disability in sonographers: more than an ergonomic issue… )=1305, SMD=-0.68] and in the subgroup with moderate/severe disability [n=165, SMD=-0.86] (moderate…
Lucy Thomas is a Senior Lecturer and researcher in the Discipline of Physiotherapy at the University of Queensland. She is also a registered practicing Titled Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist with postgraduate qualifications (Grad Dip App Sc (Manipulative Physiotherapy) from the University of Sydney …
Dr Thomas's research has had particular impact in the area of safety in management of the cervical spine. She led the development of the 'Clinical guide to safe manual therapy practice in the cervical spine' published on the webpage of the Australian Physiotherapy Association www.physiotherapy.asn.a …
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participation in people with Parkinson's disease and the factors associated with community ambulation ability and disability in this population.… warning sign for impending disability, and whether the onset of disability can be slowed.…
Robyn Lamont is a post doctoral research fellow and physiotherapist researching the assessment and physiotherapy management of people with neurological conditions including people with Parkinson's disease. Robyn's current research focuses on the assessment of community ambulation and participation i …