Research
Keeping people with communication disability safe in hospital
- Researcher: Associate Professor Bronwyn Hemsley
- Funding: NHMRC Project Grant $341,000
- Year: 2013 to 2016
Hospital patients with communication disabilities are up to three times more likely than other patients to experience preventable, harmful patient safety incidents... read more.
Personally controlled electronic health records
- Researcher: Associate Professor Bronwyn Hemsley
- Funding: NHMRC Project Grant $396,854
- Year: 2014 to 2017
Adolescents and young adults with chronic health conditions and communication disabilities struggle to communicate their health information with service providers... read more.
Tweet reach
- Researcher: Associate Professor Bronwyn Hemsley
- Funding: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award ARC $390,000
- Year: 2014 to 2017
With as many as 7 per cent of Australians having a physical and/or communication disability and being disenfranchised from information, Twitter offers a valuable form of social media... read more.
Mapping and recovery of arm coordination deficits after stroke
- Researcher: Professor Paulette van Vliet
- Funding: ARC Future Fellowship $659,000
- Year: 2011 to 2015
A primary problem after stroke is an inability to coordinate movements... read more.
Arm Movement Measure (ArMM)
- Researcher: Professor Paulette van Vliet
- Funding: Linkage Pilot Grant $10,000
- Year: 2012 to 2015
To recover from brain damage, it is vital to understand the effects of brain damage on motor control – the ability of the brain to plan, execute, monitor and adapt movement... read more.
Sensory differences in Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Researcher: Associate Professor Alison Lane
Many children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience sensory differences... read more.
The emotional reactions and psychological wellbeing of parents of children with genetic developmental disabilities
- Researcher: Dr Linda Campbell
- Year: until 2016
The current study proposes to investigate how parents (and families) can change in both positive and negative ways following the birth of a child with a developmental disability... read more.
22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
- Researcher Dr Linda Campbell
- Year: until 2016
Also known as VCFS, DiGeorge, Shprintzen syndrome, 22q11.2 deletion syndrome is associated with medical problems such as cardiac and palatal anomalies, behavioural and mental health problems and intellectual disabilities... read more.
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