About us
The Centre for Leadership in Acquired Brain Injury supports the establishment of evidence-based rehabilitative care that promotes post-injury quality of life for children, families and communities.
The Centre focuses on supporting interdisciplinary research, fostering and evaluating innovative service delivery, increasing capacity of academically trained professionals with expertise in pediatric ABI and mobilizing knowledge sharing locally, nationally and internationally.
Acquired Brain Injury
Clinical Research
- 2017: Supporting students by enhancing educator knowledge about acquired brain injury
- 2017: Exploring hopes, experiences and outcomes linked with use of the Lokomat robotic gait trainer in early stage rehabilitation of children following acquired brain injury (ABI): A mixed methods study
- 2017: Moving the Pediatric Family Needs Questionnaire (FNQ-P) into clinical practice
- 2016: Validation of the Pediatric Family Needs Questionnaire (FNQ-P) across three countries
- 2016: Review of clinical outcomes of repeated participation in the helping hand program: a modified constraint induced movement therapy for children with acquired brain injury
- 2016: Evaluating a psycho-educational group intervention for children and youth with acquired brain injury
- Computer-based vision screening in pediatric acquired brain injury
- Evaluating an educational group intervention for children and youth with brain injury
- Understanding the incidence and scope of vision impairments in pediatric brain injury
- Exploring the King's Outcome Scale for childhood head injury in children attending a rehabilitation hospital
- Helping Hand: The effectiveness of a modified constraint-induced movement therapy program for children with acquired brain injury
- Development of the Family Needs Questionnaire - Pediatric Version (FNQ-P) - Phase I
Community Leadership and Capacity Building
Concussion
Clinical Research
- 2017: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for the treatment of concussion symptoms
- 2016: Evaluating the effectiveness of ReFrame: A concussion self-management group
- 2016: Development of the Brain Injury Family Intervention Adolescent (BIFI-A) Concussion Version: An adaptation of the BIFI-A
- 2016: One Voice: The 1st international symposium on pediatric concussion- building capacity, knowledge and momentum
- The Development of a research database for the Holland Bloorview Concussion Clinic: Towards a hospital-wide model of clinical research
- Understanding the incidence and scope of vision impairments in pediatric brain injury*
- The effects of age, gender, and post concussion symptoms on postural stability in youth athletes: A normative study
- Comparing approaches to rehabilitation for youth with persisting symptoms following concussion: A randomized control trial
- Cognitive challenges experienced across the recovery trajectory post mTBI in youth: A scoping review
- Verbal fluency and verbal learning and memory post concussion in youth athletes
- Objective and subjective assessment of sleep in adolescents after mild traumatic brain injury compared to non-injured controls: A pilot study.
- Exploring the King's Outcome Scale for Childhood Head Injury in Children Attending a Rehabilitation Hospital
- 'NeuroCare' as an innovation in intervention: A neurophysiological approach to determine readiness for return to activity
- Eye movement measurement in mild traumatic brain injury: a systematic review
- The Heads Up Test Project: Development of the items for an advance motor skill test for youth who have had a concussion
- Establishing cut-points for the response options of the HeadsUP Test, a new measure for use with youth post-concussion
- Vers de nouvelles methodes d’evaluation aupres d’enfants et d’adolescents ayant subi un traumatisme craniocerebral leger.
- A scoping review of the use of client centred practices in the management of sport-related concussion in youth
- Development of The Daily Activity Log for Children with Concussion
- Returning to school post-concussion: Informing improved occupational performance amongst children and youth
- Development of a research database for the Concussion Research Centre’s Ontario Science Centre Exhibit (‘Research Live’)
Community Leadership and Capacity Building
- An occupation-based approach to rehabilitation for youth with persistent post-concussion symptoms
- A self-management approach to youth with persistent concussion symptoms
- Coaches and concussion: What is the current knowledge base in youth sport?
- Enhancement of teacher knowledge, education, and instruction of students with mild traumatic brain injury
- ‘Concussion and You’: Optimizing concussion knowledge in youth through education and peer support
- Exploring the level of knowledge and reporting of concussions and concussion symptoms in female youth hockey coaches
- Best practices for hospital-to-school transition interventions for youth with acquired brain injury: A systematic review
