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Robert Palisano
Robert J. Palisano, PT, ScD, is Professor, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) and Investigator, CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (CA). He is an investigator in studies of activity and participation of children with cerebral palsy and determinants of motor abilities, self care, and playfulness of young children with cerebral palsy. Dr. Palisano is Co-Editor of the journal Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics and Associate Editor of the textbook Physical Therapy for Children. For more information on his presentation click here.
Dr. Dianne Russell
Dianne has a background in kinesiology and advanced training in research methodology. She is a research associate with CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research and an Associate Professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Canada. Dianne holds a research scholar award from the McMaster Child Health Research Institute. Dianne has been a key individual in the development, evaluation and dissemination of clinical outcome measures such as the Gross Motor Function Measure (GMFM). Dianne has been an investigator on several measurement and evaluation studies and on the development of a number of multi-media teaching tools for service providers. She has a keen interest in the area of knowledge translation and how research findings can be used effectively in clinical practice and policy decision-making.
Dr Sylvia Rodger
B.Occ.Thy., M.Ed., St., PhD.
Associate Professor in Occupational Therapy
The University of Queensland
Sylvia Rodger is professor and head of Division of Occupational Therapy at the University of Queensland. She has a long-standing interest in paediatric occupational therapy from both a clinical perspective and in terms of undergraduate and postgraduate student education. In addition she has had 25 years experience as an academic teaching at undergraduate, graduate entry and postgraduate levels. She has an interest in curriculum development and reform, professional competencies, interprofessional education, curriculum mapping and the integration of theory and practice in professional clinical programs.
Sylvia’s clinical research interests include: cognitive interventions for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and Asperger Syndrome, early intervention and play for children with autism spectrum disorders, family centred practice, the impact of disability on families, paediatric occupational therapy service delivery and evidence based practice.
Prof Rodger has significant expertise in working with families and children with ASD during 10 years of part time private practice and more recently through research. She has successfully completed two major research grants ($400,000) from Commonwealth Department of Families, Communities and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA) through their Stronger Families Funding 2002-2004 and 2005-2007. These focused on developing a series of parent education workshops for parents of children newly diagnosed with ASD and evaluating the effectiveness of these and a 10 week in home early intervention program focusing on communication and play. As part of this program a DVD Being Responsive: You and your child with Autism was developed. Many publications and presentations have resulted from this work. She has also undertaken several significant surveys on OT practice in Australia and Canada in the early 1990s and 2000s. These have been widely referenced as seminal work in OT paediatric practice in Australia.
She is on the editorial boards of Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, Journal of Research in Interprofessional Education (JRIPE), Occupational Therapy in Early Intervention, Preschools and Schools and on the international advisory board of the British Journal of Occupational Therapy. She has published 3 books, 19 book chapters and has 130 publications in national and international peer reviewed journals, and over 100 peer reviewed conferences presentations.
Russell Shuttleworth
Dr. Russell Shuttleworth, a medical anthropologist, is currently lecturer in sexual health focusing on sexuality and disability and sexuality and ageing at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney. Dr. Shuttleworth is a qualitative researcher who has conducted disability related research on issues such as sexuality, gender, leadership, and communication and research in aged care on both sexuality and psychogeriatric issues. Dr. Shuttleworth worked for many years as a personal assistant for disabled people in the San Francisco Bay Area, many of whom were speech impaired, in which he performed the role of communication facilitator or voice interpreter. He has conducted research with people with speech impairments on the barriers they face in effectively communicating in health care contexts and on their negotiation of and access to sexually intimate relationships. Dr. Shuttleworth's current projects include establishing an international sexuality and disability research consortium and investigating current Australian policy and staff education and training in residential aged care facilities relating to the sexual expression of residents.
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