incredible!The team at the ResearchWorks Podcast are celebrating 200 episodes! With over 4 seasons, invited collaborators with the EACD - European Academy of Childhood-onset Disabilities Conference and the AusACPDM - the Australasian Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine and Transformative Practice Award Winners for 2024, it has been a stellar journey. 🚀Join us for a brilliant wrap up for Season 4 - we have some special standalone episodes coming and in 2025, we'll be back on t...

An incredible episode with Director of Research - Professor Ben Jackson from The Kids Research Institute Australia - a masterful lesson in communication skills.Our role as clinicians involves a whole lot of communication and there are evidence based approaches for how we communicate. This is so important because whilst communication skills are often referred to as 'soft skills', they are the key to understanding people. In this week's episode, expect to learn about the role of the Self D...

Motor optimality score-revised (mos-r) and hammersmith infant neurological examination (hine) predict high likelihood of autism at 12 months corrected age in a developmentally vulnerable infant cohort.Dr Carly Luke is a Physiotherapist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Queensland Cerebral Palsy and Rehabilitation Research Centre, the University of Queensland. Her work across clinical and research settings is focused on delivering care to infants with an increased likelihood of cerebra...

The power of Para sport: the effect of performance-focused swimming training on motor function in adolescents with cerebral palsy and high support needs (GMFCS IV) - a single-case experimental design with 30-month follow-up.AbstractObjective: This study aims to evaluate the effect of a performance-focused swimming programme on motor function in previously untrained adolescents with cerebral palsy and high support needs (CPHSN) and to determine whether the motor decline typical of adolescents ...

Effectiveness of postural interventions in cerebral palsy: umbrella systematic review.Monica Toohey , Remy Blatch-Williams , Kristian Budini , Astrid Ferreira , Alexandra Griffin , Ashleigh Hines , Michelle Jackman , Karin Lind , Jill Massey , Maria Mc Namara , Jenna Mitchell , Catherine Morgan , Esther Norfolk , Madison CB. Paton , Daniel Polyblank , Sarah Reedman , Iona NovakDiscussionThe objective of this umbrella systematic review was to summarize and evaluate the evidence for postural ma...

Ewan is the director of Malaria Risk Stratification at the Kids Research Institute Australia. With over a decade of international research experience spanning the fields of astronomy, statistics, machine learning and epidemiology, Dr Ewan Cameron returned to Australia in February 2020 as an Associate Professor at Curtin University and Honorary Research Associate at The Kids Research Institute Australia. Within the Malaria Atlas Project, he leads a team responsible for the innovation...

Validating the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Core Sets for Autism in a Sample of Australian School-Aged Children on the Spectrum.Assessing functioning of children on the autism spectrum is necessary to determine the level of support they require to participate in everyday activities across contexts. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is a comprehensive biopsychosocial framework recommended for classifying heal...

The pod now has many (thousands!) of new listeners and we decided to bring forward our annual Q and A session with the hosts of the show. A little more backstory of each host, a look back at why we do what we do, some incredible highlights you might have missed and why the pod is a firm proponent of evidence based practices.We cover off many topics, including:Is the podcast a full-time gig? What the difference between evidence-based and evidence-informed practice is,Qualitative research ...

LEAP-CP stands for Learning through Everyday Activities with Parents, an early detection and intervention program that adapts the international clinical practice guideline for early detection and intervention in CP for low and middle income countries. In this paper, LEAP-CP was tested in an RCT with Asha Bhavan Centre in India from 2019 to 2019 and has continued implementation since 2021. This study aimed to determine the acceptability, appropriateness, feasibility, penetration, retentio...

The Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy and bridging the gap: co-designing a decision aid for informed decision making.

HABIT-ILE Australia: Randomised trial of Hand-Arm Bimanual Intensive Training Including Lower Extremity for Children with bilateral cerebral palsy

A not to be missed episode! This is the extended interview with Hannah Diviney that was the stunning opening keynote to AusACPDM 2024!Don't be fooled by the music... we continued having a chat with Hannah for another 20 minutes and it was so good, we decided to add it to the episode listing as a full fledged interview!52 minutes of pure joy - Hannah is a wonderful communicator, role model and advocate and it is the personal stories, the lived experience perspective that makes these kinds of i...

A special post-conference interview with AusACPDM 2024 Presidential Guest Lecture Panelist Carol Shrader.

It's our final episode from the AusACPDM Conference for 2024, held in Cairns, North Queensland!Join us for a look back at another incredible conference and some of our highlights for the week and what we are looking forward to in the future!Also, fittingly during the Olympics games, Dayna and Ash won an award!The very prestigious Transformative Practice Award - given to clinicians who encourage evidence-based practice and translate research into practice! 🏆*Producer Ed is very proud of ...

Final keynote Lecture: Moving to learn, learning to move: How play, exploration and cognition intertwine in paediatric rehabilitation.Recorded live at AusACPDM from the main exhibition hall - the pod is a little noisier than the regular episodes but it does make it feel like you're right here with us in Cairns North Queensland! 😉

Functional mobility mattersEmbedding motor learning interventions using dynamic robotic technology.

Playground Accessibility - the Participate app:Co-designing a mobile application to improve participation opportunities for children with neurodisabilities.

Alicia Spittle Keynote (Dinah Reddihough Oration).Recorded live at AusACPDM from the main exhibition hall - the pod is a little noisier than the regular episodes but it does make it feel like you're right here with us in Cairns North Queensland! 😉

Free Paper, Measure and Outcomes. A core outcome set of chronic pain assessment tools for young people with cerebral palsy: consensus from key stakeholders.Recorded live at AusACPDM from the main exhibition hall - the pod is a little noisier than the regular episodes but it does make it feel like you're right here with us in Cairns North Queensland! 😉

What are health professional's responsibilities? A candid discussion about setting a new standard.Recorded live at AusACPDM from the main exhibition hall - the pod is a little noisier than the regular episodes but it does make it feel like you're right here with us in Cairns North Queensland! 😉

PhD PaperThe Circus Project: code signing a circus based intervention to enhance physical activity participation for preschool aged children born preterm.Recorded live at AusACPDM from the main exhibition hall - the pod is a little noisier than the regular episodes but it does make it feel like you're right here with us in Cairns North Queensland! 😉

Cerebral palsy in low and middle income countries: situation analysis, rehabilitation status, livelihood-based intervention and social business model.Recorded live at AusACPDM from the main exhibition hall - the pod is a little noisier than the regular episodes but it does make it feel like you're right here with us in Cairns North Queensland! 😉

PhD Platform:Innovative Evidence-Based Assessment and Treatment of Oropharyngeal Dysphagia and Communication Disorders in Infants and Young Children at High Risk of Cerebral Palsy.Recorded live at AusACPDM from the main exhibition hall - the pod is a little noisier than the regular episodes but it does make it feel like you're right here with us in Cairns North Queensland! 😉

Health EquityKnowledge translation of evidence-based interventions to improve functional mobility in a low to middle income country.