I-EAT: Intensive Early Active Treatment for Infants with Cerebral Palsy

Описание: Amanda Khamis is a speech pathologist from Sydney, Australia who has worked internationally in the UK, Middle East, and Australia for 15 years. She has developed expertise in supporting feeding and communication for children and adults with complex neurological, chromosomal or syndromic disabilities such as cerebral palsy, autism, and Down syndrome. She has an enthusiasm for life-long learning and is currently completing a PhD, researching swallowing assessments and motor learning-based feeding interventions for infants at risk of cerebral palsy. Amanda continues to work clinically at Cerebral Palsy Alliance, and values life’s simple pleasures, like delicious food and a good chat, and is dedicated to supporting her clients to have the opportunity to safely and successfully experience the same.

FAQ:

What is CP-Achieve?
The Centre of Research Excellence: Australian Centre for Health, Independence, Economic Participation and Value Enhanced Care for adolescents and young adults with cerebral palsy (CP-Achieve). CP-ACHIEVE is a five year, NHMRC funded Centre of Research Excellence project that supports collaborative research and development in cerebral palsy research. The team consists of a multidisciplinary group of adolescents and young adults with cerebral palsy, families, clinicians, researchers and students that are all working together to fulfil CP-Achieve’s aims. CP-Achieve commenced in February 2020 and will finish in 2025.

What does CP-Achieve do?
CP-ACHIEVE fosters health care access and promotes healthy lifestyle interventions to improve community participation. Two overarching aims guide the research program: to improve physical and mental health, and to build supportive family, community and health service environments. The outcomes of CP-Achieve are to establish rigorous population-based data about the scope of health and participation problems, best practices and guidelines for health and disability service providers, means to empower adolescents and young adults with cerebral palsy to use health and community services, and models of cost-effectiveness to inform policy and practice, and drive value-enhanced care.