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Introduction
I am an applied developmental psychologist (UK) with a practice and leadership background in paediatric clinical psychology (non-UK). I am a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. My research is in family-centred interventions in intellectual and developmental disabilities. This expands into women's health and health inequalities via collaborations.
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February 2009 - March 2012
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Evidence based approach for selection of occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy students. Can Multiple Mini Interview scores (MMI) predict the academic and clinical performance of students? A predictive validity study.
Background: Brief interventions (BI) involving physical activity (PA) screening and/or advice are recommended in primary care. However, the frequency of delivery is unknown. Aim: To examine the extent to which PA BI are delivered in primary care and explore factors associated with delivery, receipt, and patient receptivity. Design: A mixed methods...
Systematic Review Protocol
PROSPERO International prospective register of systematic reviews CRD42021243791
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o clarify how perinatal anxiety is characterised within the current evidence base and discuss how a clearer definition and understanding of this condition may contribute to improving care provision by midwives and other healthcare professionals.
Background:
Perinatal anxiety is common, occurs more frequently than depression and carries sign...
Background and Aim
Evidence on the efficacy of parenting interventions to support communication development in deaf and hard-of-hearing children is emerging. In previous research, we showed that parental participation in a video feedback–based intervention enhanced parental self-esteem and emotional availability to their deaf and hard-of-hearing ch...
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Limited research exists on the predictive validity of multiple mini interviews when used during the selection process for physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy programmes. Traditional interviews were replaced by multiple mini interviews in the selection process for these three undergraduate programmes i...
This chapter reflects on parental engagement, parent-child communication, and family centered approach as essential elements of inclusive practice for educational inclusion.
Evidence on best practice for optimizing communication with prelingual deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children is lacking. This study examined the effect of a family-focused psychosocial video intervention program on parent-child communication in the context of childhood hearing loss. Fourteen hearing parents with a prelingual DHH child (Mage = 2 y...
Recent research shows that parental sensitivity can explain a significant and unique amount of growth in speech and language outcomes in children with cochlear implants. In this intervention study we explored the impact of an intervention designed to support parental sensitivity on children's communication development.
This study tests the effect o...
The purpose was to test the reliability of short samples of parent/child interaction for use in single-subject research. Four variable pairs of mother/child behaviour were coded for seven mother/child play sessions. Each session lasted 20 min and 18 min of the session was behaviourally coded using frame-by-frame analysis. The co-occurrence of the m...
This report presents evidence for changes in dichotic listening asymmetries across the menstrual cycle, which replicate studies from our laboratory and others. Increases in the right ear advantage (REA) were present in women at phases of the menstrual cycle associated with higher levels of ovarian hormones. The data also revealed correlations betwe...
This paper describes the impact of a family-centred intervention that used video to enhance communication in a young girl with cerebral palsy. This single case study describes how the video-based intervention worked in the context of multimodal communication, which included high-tech augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device use. This...
The purpose of this study was to adapt wavelet analysis as a tool for discriminating speech samples taken from healthy subjects across two biological states. Speech pressure waveforms were drawn from a study on effects of hormone fluctuations across the menstrual cycle on language functions. Speech samples from the vowel portion of the syllable 'pa...
The impact of menstrual cyclicity and sex differences on dichotic listening was studied in 25 women and 20 men (aged 20-25 years). Dichotic listening was administered using consonant-vowel (CV) stimuli and tested across three attention conditions. Women were tested at two points in the menstrual cycle (Day 2-5: low oestrogen and progesterone/Low-EP...
Whiteside et al. [S.P. Whiteside, A. Hanson, P.E. Cowell, Hormones and temporal components of speech: sex differences and effects of menstrual cyclicity on speech, Neurosci. Lett. 367 (2004) 44-47] documented effects of menstrual cycle phase and sex on voice onset time (VOT) in naturally timed speech using whole words. VOT is a temporal component o...
