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Addressing the barriers to accessing therapy services in rural and remote areas
Published 2012-08-01Purpose: Throughout the world, people with a disability who live in rural and remote areas experience difficulty accessing a range of community-based services including speech-, physioand occupational therapy. This paper ...Open AccessArticle -
Barriers to the use of Information and Communication Technology by occupational therapists working in a rural area of New South Wales, Australia
Published 2013-01-01Background/aim: This qualitative study formed part of a large-scale, multi-phase study into the delivery of therapy services to people with a disability, living in one rural area of New South Wales, Australia. The study’s ...Open AccessArticle -
Boosting the recruitment and retention of new graduate speech-language pathologists for the disability workforce
Published 2016-01-01New graduate speech-language pathologists (SLPs) will play an integral role in meeting the anticipated growth in demand for a highly skilled disability workforce under the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Despite ...Open AccessArticle -
Carer and service providers’ experiences of individual funding models for children with a disability in rural and remote areas
Published 2013-01-01There is a global movement for people with a disability towards personcentred practices with opportunities for self-determination and choice. Person-centred approaches may involve individual funding (IF) for the purchase ...Open AccessArticle -
Carer' Therapy Access Survey
Published 2014-06-01In response to a Carers’ Therapy Access Survey conducted from November 2012 until July 2013, 166 carers shared their insights on the therapy access requirements of people with a disability or developmental delay in western ...Open AccessOther -
Delivering private therapy in rural Australia
Published 2013-07-01Enabling high quality, sustainable and accessible services: A framework for rural private therapists.Open AccessOther -
Developing the rural health workforce to improve Australian Aboriginal health outcomes: a systematic review
Published 2016-01-01Objective: The aim of this study was to identify evidence based strategies in the literature for developing and maintaining a skilled and qualified rural and remote health workforce in Australia to better meet the health ...Open AccessArticle -
Factors affecting retention of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural New South Wales, Australia: discrete choice experiment questionnaire development
Published 2015-01-01Objective: This paper describes the development of a discrete choice experiment (DCE) questionnaire to identify the factors (attributes) that allied health professionals (AHPs) working with people with disability identify ...Open AccessArticle -
Individual Funding: the experiences of families in rural areas
Published 2013-09-01Open AccessOther -
Integrating evidence into policy and sustainable disability services delivery in western New South Wales, Australia: the ‘wobbly hub and double spokes’ project
Published 2012-06-01Background: Policy that supports rural allied health service delivery is important given the shortage of services outside of Australian metropolitan centres. The shortage of allied health professionals means that rural ...Open AccessArticle -
Issues affecting therapist workforce and service delivery in the disability sector in rural and remote New South Wales, Australia: perspectives of policymakers, managers and senior therapists
Published 2012-06-11Introduction: The disability sector encompasses a broad range of conditions and needs, including children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, people with acquired disabilities, and irreversible ...Open AccessArticle -
Listening to Aboriginal people in rural and remote western NSW
Published 2013-09-01Open AccessOther -
Multiple stakeholder perspectives on teletherapy delivery of speech pathology services in rural schools: a preliminary qualitative investigation
Published 2014-01-01The objective of this study was to investigate stakeholders’ views on the feasibility and acceptability of a pilot speech pathology teletherapy program for children attending schools in rural New South Wales, Australia. ...Open AccessArticle -
The need for new models for delivery of therapy intervention to people with a disability in rural and remote areas of Australia
Published 2012-03-01Early therapy intervention by occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and speech pathologists (therapists) is recognised to yield benefits across the lifecourse (Carpenter, 2007; Law, 2002; Thomaidis, Kaderoglou, Stefou, ...Open AccessArticle -
Policy Development and Implementation for Disability Services in Rural New South Wales, Australia
Published 2014-09-01Throughout their lives, all people, including those who have a disability, use a broad range of community services. Community services are important in assisting people with a range of impairments to participate in their ...Open AccessArticle -
Recruitment and retention of allied health professionals in the disability sector in rural and remote New South Wales, Australia
Published 2013-11-26Background: People with disability living in rural areas are vulnerable to the loss of access to allied health services due to a critical shortage of allied health professionals (AHPs). This study aimed to investigate ...Open AccessArticle -
Rural Carers of People with Disabilities: Making Choices to Move or to Stay
Published 2014-01-01When a child is born with, or an individual acquires, a disability in rural Australia, one of the decisions faced by the family is whether to remain living in a rural area or move to a larger metropolitan centre to access ...Open AccessArticle -
Should I stay or should I go? Exploring the job preferences of allied health professionals working with people with disability in rural Australia
Published 2015-01-01Introduction: The uneven distribution of allied health professionals (AHPs) in rural and remote Australia and other countries is well documented. In Australia, like elsewhere, service delivery to rural and remote communities ...Open AccessArticle -
Speech pathologists’ perspectives on transitioning to telepractice: What factors promote acceptance?
Published 2015-01-01Little is understood about factors that influence speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs’) acceptance of telepractice. The aim of this study was to investigate SLPs’ perceptions and experiences of transitioning to a school-based ...Open AccessArticle