Working together to improve the lives of people with brain impairment

Skye McDonald at UNSW is recruiting for the undernoted studies and they need your help - DOWNLOAD FLYer
HRV & tDSC Studies - Investigating the efficacy of Heart-rate Variability biofeedback (HRV) & Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) treatments & whether they aid emotional regulation and social dysfunction that may occur following TBI. They are also recruiting Controls!!!

Carer's Way Ahead: Pilot Study for carer's looking after people with TBI - This is an online support programme for family members who are caring for a person with brain injury.

Elizabeth Hill is a Speech Pathologist and PhD candidate at Curtin University, WA. She is looking for people to complete her survey, please see below for information on the survey then click on the link. Survey link: https://tinyurl.com/ybm9662v

Survey title: The assessment and management of discourse-level deficits in paediatric brain injury: a survey of current practice in Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA, Canada, and the Asia Pacific.

Ethics approval/reference number:  Curtin University Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) has approved this study (HREC number HRE2016-0349-07).

Study information and eligibility: This study aims to understand current assessment and treatment practices of Speech Pathologists who target discourse-level impairments in child/adolescent acquired brain injury (ABI). If you are a speech pathologist in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, America, Canada, and the Asia Pacific region (e.g. Hong Kong, Singapore) who has worked with children or adolescents with an ABI, we would like to invite you to participate in an online survey. This project will investigate current assessment and intervention practices used to manage discourse-level impairments in this population.

Please direct queries to a member of the research team:

Elizabeth Hill, PhD Candidate
School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work, and Speech Pathology
Curtin University
elizabeth.j.hill@postgrad.curtin.edu.au

Dr Mary Claessen, Senior Lecturer
School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work, and Speech Pathology
Curtin University
m.claessen@curtin.edu.au

A/Prof Anne Whitworth
School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work, and Speech Pathology
Curtin University
anne.whitworth@curtin.edu.au

Dr Mark Boyes, Senior Research Fellow
School of Psychology
mark.boyes@curtin.edu.au

It is hoped that the findings from this survey will help direct the development of better quality training opportunities for community ABI therapists.

Thank you for your assistance, Jai Carmichael, Psychology Honours student (jcar49@student.monash.edu; 0449 772 984)

Supervisors: Professor Jennie Ponsford (jennie.ponsford@monash.edu), Dr Kate Gould (kate.gould@monash.edu), Ms Amelia Hicks (amelia.hicks@monash.edu), Monash University, MERRC office number: 9426 8923