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Welcome to the Dawson Lab
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Amanda Clark
I am generally interested in errors of attention in everyday life that are a result of executing overly routine tasks, mind-wandering, aging and executive dysfunction due to acquired brain injury. My research focuses on using tasks that measure these attention-related errors to better understand how and why individuals make errors in complex, everyday tasks and to use that information to develop strategies for the prevention of these errors in the young and old, healthy and impaired.
Anne Williams Hunt
I am a PhD student in the Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science at University of Toronto. I am also an occupational therapist whose research interests include: real world cognitive training of individuals with executive dysfunction from acquired brain injury or the aging process; and the influence of self-regulation on executive function. My PhD research is entitled, “An exploration of self-identified goal formulation in adults with executive dysfunction”. By definition, people with executive dysfunction have impairment in their ability to identify day-to-day life goals and yet many interventions in cognitive rehabilitation are goal based. Most research to date has examined the process used to achieve goals rather than the process used by the individual to identify these goals in the first place. My research proposes to examine the process of self-identified goal formulation more closely in this population, to develop a training method for goal formulation and to test the effectiveness of this training. I am the recipient of a Doctoral Research Award (Occupational Therapy in Mobility & Aging ) from the Canadian Institute of Health Research.
Courtney Brennan
I am currently working to research factors contributing to successful outcomes in adults and older adults with ABI and executive dysfunction using a naturalistic, meta-cognitive strategy training approach. I am conducting data analysis to determine communication factors between the therapist/facilitator and research participant which may contribute to the success of the intervention. The novelty of this research lies in the analysis of executive dysfunction treatment procedures and how specific communication patterns may affect outcomes, impact the quality of life, and potential independent functioning of adults and older adults with executive dysfunction. Through this project we hope to understand another facet of the intervention and contribute to the evidence-based for best practices in problem solving intervention techniques for individuals with related executive difficulties.
Erxun Li
In general, my research focuses on adults with acquired brain injury. I am working on determining neuropsychological outcome at 6 and 12 months after Traumatic Brain Injury. I am an international student from China. I entered a combined major of Traditional Clinical Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine at Heilongjiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in September 2003 and received my medical degree in June 2008. After finishing my undergraduate degree program, I got the scholarship from my university to pursue graduate studies at University of Toronto. Now I am doing the master degree in Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science, University of Toronto and working with Dr. Deirdre Dawson. My project is focusing on neuropsychological outcome at 6 months and 1 year post Traumatic Brain Injury.
Rachel Pound
Cognitive Orientation to Occupational Performance (CO-OP) has been shown to assist adults with executive dysfunction in goal-achievement. The study that I am currently working on looks specifically at guided discovery, the process used within CO-OP to guide clients to identify plans for goal-achievement. Communication patterns between therapists and participants are being explored through a conversation analysis of videotaped CO-OP sessions, and then compared with goal progression. Sidrah Arshad
I am currently finishing my Masters in Rehabilitation Science with a collaborative program in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto. My study involves understanding the impact of executive dysfunction on everyday tasks in stroke participants as they attempt to complete the Multiple Errands Test (MET). The MET is a naturalistic, real-world assessment, which involves participants to complete a series of real-life tasks such as shopping and collecting specific pieces of information within the constraint of a set of rules. I am using an event recorder, which would allow a more detailed and accurate characterization of all the behaviors performed.
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