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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 ...Article -
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 ...Other -
Delivering private therapy in rural Australia
Published 2013-07-01Enabling high quality, sustainable and accessible services: A framework for rural private therapists.Other -
Individual Funding: the experiences of families in rural areas
Published 2013-09-01Other -
Listening to Aboriginal people in rural and remote western NSW
Published 2013-09-01Other -
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 ...Article -
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 ...Article -
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 ...Article -
Telepractice for children with complex disability: Guidelines for quality allied health services
Published 2017-11-02Telepractice has the potential to spread allied health professionals’ (AHPs’) reach further into rural Australia. There are fewer AHPs in rural and remote Australia compared to metropolitan areas. This means that children ...Other -
Telepractice for children with complex disability: Quality service delivery
Published 2017-10-04Telepractice is the delivery of therapy services at a distance by linking clinicians to clients, carers, or others, via technology such as web-based videoconferencing. Funded by auDA Foundation in 2016-17, and in partnership ...Publisher version -
Telepractice: A legitimate choice for quality disability services
Published 2018-06-14The Wobbly Hub Rural Research Team has heard repeatedly from families living in rural and remote Australia how difficult it is to access allied health therapy services. As a result, many children with disabilities living ...Audiovisual -
The Wobbly Hub & Double Spokes project: people with a disability in rural areas.
Published 2013-07-01The Wobbly Hub and Double Spokes project aims to develop, implement and evaluate new models of therapy service delivery for people with a disability living in rural areas. Based on our research work in Western NSW and the ...Other