Research Program Report 2006-2010
This Research Report illustrates some of the scientific inquiry that has taken place here at Thames Valley Children’s Centre (TVCC). Summarizing four years of work done by hundreds of researchers, clients, families, and clinicians is a formidable challenge. In this Report, you will find a variety of research inquiries across different program areas. We use research evidence to inform our clinical and everyday practice and to help us in our decision-making processes.
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Facts To Go and Focus On
Facts To Go and Focus Ons are FREE brief, easy-to-read summaries of research findings and topics of interest  published and distributed by Thames Valley Children’s Centre.
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Below is a list of our free Research summaries by topic area. Click on the link to view the abstracts. * Online PDF's are available for selected issues.
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Children's Outcomes
Psychosocial
- NEW - Understanding sexuality and sex education for adolescents with physical disabilities. *
- "Self-Determination" Why is it important for youth and young adults with disabilities? *
- What is “Quality of Life” and how can research identify the factors that optimize life quality for children and youth with chronic conditions? *
- Child behaviour problems and maternal depression.
- Enhancing social support for children and youth with chronic physical health conditions. *
- Pathways to children's academic and social outcomes.
- Resilience: Learning from people with disabilities and turning points in their lives.
- The priorities, values, and worldviews of families of children with autism and down syndrome.
- What adolescents with disabilities want in life: Implications for service delivery.
Therapy
- NEW - Using an interactive whiteboard to support a student with autism spectrum disorder. *
- A dynamic wheelchair seating system: Design and technical development. *
- Enabling the participation of children with motor problems: The CO-OP approach.
- Evaluation of two treatments for toe-walking for children with cerebral palsy. *
- Technology-related recommendations of occupational therapists for students with handwriting problems.
- The physical benefits of therapeutic horseback riding for children with special needs.
Community Attitudes
- Community awareness & attitudes toward the participation of children with special needs.
- Findings from a community forum on the participation of children with special needs.
- Researching childhood disability: Impact through community involvement.
Decision Making
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Nature of Disability
- A profile of Canadian school-aged children’s health and disability.
- Children's beliefs about learning and physical difficulties.
- What is childhood disability?
Program Evaluation
- Peer-mediated school-based program proves successful in promoting positive social skills.
- An evaluation of developmental resources fro infants: Collaborative health care services for infants and their families. *
- An evaluation of the Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury Community Outreach Program(PABICOP).
- Youth En Route: An evaluation of a transition program.
- An evaluation of the School Support Program-Autism Spectrum Disorder (SSP-ASD).
School - Inclusion/Transition
- Educators' attitudes toward inclusion.
- Factors influencing students' attitudes toward their peers with disabilities.
- Physical accessibility of schools.
- Planning successful transitions from school to adult roles for youth with disabilities.
- Promoting success in school for children with special needs.
- Smooth transition to Junior Kindergarten: Influential factors and outcomes of a parent program to prepare children for school.
- Strategies for including children in the classroom.
Service Delivery
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NEW - Service delivery model for pediatric rehabilitation. *
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A "positive" focus for service delivery and research in pediatric rehabilitation. *
- Solution-focused coaching in paediatric rehabilitation.
- Spirituality and pediatric rehabilitation.
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The developmental resources for infants partnership: Enhancing interdisciplinary collaboration to improve services for clients and families.
- Relationship-centre practice: A best practice in rehabilitation service delivery.
- Action plans to increase the participation of children with special needs in our community.
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"Best approaches" in pediatric rehabilitation: intervention principles for service providers.
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Development of a questionnaire to measure perceptions of Prescription Review in AAC.
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School-based occupational therapy: Evaluating service delivery models.
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The quality of services delivered by Ontario Children's Rehabilitation Centres.
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Volunteers: What motivates them?
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Books
Social support and health in youth: Examining relationships
McDougall, J.
2011, Germany: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. (ISBN: 978-3-854-4205-1) 
Researchers and theorists sugggest that social support may play a focal role in the relationship between having chronic physical health problems and psychological functioning. This book highlights a study that examined how social support from family, close friends, teachers, and classmates for a sample of almost 2,000 high school students during grade nine intervened to influence the relationship between students' long-term physcial health and disability status and their psychological functioning in grade ten.
The author provides a thorough review of the literature in this area, and a comprehensive consideration of the practical implications of the study's findings.
This book is available online from:
Resilience: Learning from people with disabilities and the turning points in their lives
King, G. A., Brown, E. G., & Smith, L. K. (Eds.) (with Cathers, T., Havens, L., MacKinnon, E., Miller Polgar, J., Specht, J. A., & Willoughby, C.)
2003, Westport, CT: Praeger. (ISBN: 0-275-97943-1)
This book brings to life the nature of resilience and ad aptations to change by describing turning points, or critical experiences, in the lives of people with disabilities.
Fifteen individuals between the ages of 28 and 53 with cerebral palsy, spina bifida, or attention deficit disorder describe events and experiences that changed their lives and pinpoint which factors helped or hindered their adaptation. Interweaving these compelling stories with popular thought and research evidence, the authors show how understanding the resilience of people with disabilities may help all readers create meaning in life and become resilient.
Rich in personal detail, yet strong in its presentation of academic literature and nonfiction works related to resilience, this volume will appeal to a wide variety of readers from people who wonder about the meaning of life, to the parents of children with disabilities and organizations that deliver services to them, to students and professors in the fields of psychology, education, social work and occupational therapy.
This book is available to order online from:
Editorial Book Reviews
“This readable and life-affirming book, almost conversational in tone, will interest all who work with individuals with disabilities. Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers.”– Choice
“This book is clearly eye-opening, for those who choose to have their eyes opened.”– Multicultural Review
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