Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital
Other Researchers Affiliated with the JRH
List of current projects
(Note: not all projects are conducted on site at the JRH)
Dr. Debbie Ehrmann-Feldman
- Determinants of involvement in active physical and other leisure activities in children and youth with juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Development and validation of a clinical quantitative postural evaluation tool in adolescent scoliosis
- Association between childhood head injury and subsequent suicide
- Organisation plan for appropriate services offered to patients with possible scoliosis
Dr. Erika Gisel
- Assessment and treatment of individuals with neurologically based eating impairments
- Influence of age and diagnosis, mental retardation, attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity on feeding abilities in children with autism spectrum disorders
- Effect of repetitive behaviors on motor performance of children with autism spectrum disorders
- Examination of psychometric properties for a reliable and valid mealtime assessment in patients with tracheostomy
Dr. Lucyna Lach
- Building a profile of children with disabilities who are part of the child welfare system,
- Development and testing of models that address determinants of quality of life in youth with epilepsy and cerebral palsy.
- Documenting and testing a model about the health of caregivers of youth with disabilities using the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth in Canada
- PARENTING MATTERS! The Biopsychosocial Context Of Parenting Children With Neurodevelopmental Disorders In Canada
Dr. Annette Majnemer
- Determinants of participation in leisure activities and quality of life of adolescents with cerebral palsy
- Determinants of active involvement in leisure for youth born premature or with a congenital heart defect
- Handwriting performance prior to and following initiation of stimulant medication in children with ADHD
- Intrinsic and extrinsic factors influencing involvement in active physical and other leisure activities in children and youth with juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Leisure participation in young children with global developmental delay
- Promoting knowledge translation and exchange: Cerebral palsy demonstration project; as part of Network Center of Excellence (NCE) NeuroDevNet
Dr. Laurie M. Snider
- Longitudinal follow-up study of developmental and functional sequellae of extremely low birth weight infants
- Patterns of recreation, leisure and participation in children with High Functioning Autism
- The ability of the General Movements Assessment to determine fine motor abilities in children born preterm
- Hippotherapy as a means to develop social participation and self care in young children with cerebral palsy
- Development of CP-Engine: a Web-based Knowledge Translation Tool for children with cerebral palsy using simple web-based strategies to promote knowledge exchange for ‘best evidence’ in the clinical community
Dr. Paul J. Stapley
- The organization of feed-forward postural adjustments for posture and voluntary movement coordination
- Postural adjustments during unexpected changes of final goal during voluntary movements
- Vestibular and visual contributions to postural adjustments accompanying voluntary movements during stance
- Stretch reflex contributions to feed-forward postural adjustments