Health Sciences

School of Human Communication Sciences

Dr Jacinta Douglas
Senior Lecturer

Tel: 03 9479 1797

Fax: 03 9479 1874

Email: j.douglas@latrobe.edu.au

I completed my undergraduate professional degree in speech pathology in 1977 and worked for the next 5 years at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. In 1982, I moved to British Columbia, Canada and commenced postgraduate study in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology. I completed my Masters degree in Psychology in 1987 and received my doctorate from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, in 1994. During my 6 year stay in Canada I was employed in general psychological and rehabilitation practice.

I commenced my academic career at La Trobe University in 1989. During my time at La Trobe, I have been especially interested in student-centred learning and the application of problem-based learning to curriculum development for health science education. Through my professional experience as a speech pathologist and clinical neuropsychologist I have become particularly aware of the importance of interdisciplinary professional activity. Consequently, I am strongly committed to supporting associations that have a multidisciplinary base. I am currently an executive member of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment and am co-editor of the Society’s journal, Brain Impairment. I am also an active member in the Speech Pathology Association of Australia.

Qualifications

• B App Sc (Sp Path)
• M Sc (Psych)
• PhD (Psych)

Areas of Interest

• Traumatic brain injury
• Stroke
• Ageing
• Frontal lobe function

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Teaching, Clinics and Supervision

• Chief Examiner - HCS31APH - Aphasia
• PHE32CND - Central Nervous System Disorders
• Postgraduate Coordinator
• Course Coordinator - Master of Speech Pathology
• Chief Examiner - HCS51NCP, HCS52BCP, HCS50TIM
• Supervision of Honours and postgraduate research students
• HCS40PRP/HCS30CLI External clinical supervision

Academic & Professional Achievements

• Visiting Expert, Singapore Ministry of Health: Neurorehabilitation in Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury, Singapore 12-22 November, 2001
• Appointed Co-Editor of Brain Impairment A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment, 1999
• Winner La Trobe University Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1998
• Runner-up La Trobe Postgraduate Supervisor of the Year, 1995

Research Interests

• Long-term psychosocial adjustment and coping following acquired brain damage
• Family functioning and carer adjustment following acquired brain damage
• Communication impairment following traumatic brain injury: assessment and intervention
• Stroke outcomes
• Attention deficits associated with aphasia
• Coping and aphasia
• Aphasia therapy
• Right hemisphere communication disorders: assessment and treatment
• Communication impairments associated with Alzheimer's disease
• Communication and ageing
• Frontal lobe function and ageing
• Problem Based Learning in education for health professionals

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Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

Douglas, J., Bracy, C. & Snow, P. (in press). Exploring the factor structure of the La Trobe Communication Questionnaire: Insights into the nature of communication deficits following traumatic brain injury. Aphasiology.

Douglas, J., Bracy, C. & Snow, P. (in press). Measuring perceived communicative ability after traumatic brain injury: Reliability and validity of the La Trobe Communication Questionnaire. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.

Rose, M. & Douglas, J. (in press) A comparison of verbal and gesture treatments for a word production deficit resulting from acquired apraxia of speech.

Rose, M. & Douglas, J. (in press) Treating a semantic word production deficit in aphasia with verbal and gesture methods. Aphasiology.

Abel, L. & Douglas, J. (in press,). Effects of age on latency and error generation in internally mediated saccades. Neurobiology of Aging.

Watts, A., & Douglas, J. (2006). Interpreting facial expression and communication competence following severe traumatic brain injury. Aphasiology, 20, 707-722.

Douglas, J., Dyson, M., & Foreman, P. (2006). Increasing leisure activity following severe traumatic brain injury: Does it make a difference? Brain Impairment, 2, 107-118.

Bracy, C., & Douglas, J. (2005). Marital dyad perceptions of injured partners’ communication following severe traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment, 6, 1-12.

Rose, M., & Douglas, J. (2003). Limb apraxia, pantomime, and lexical gesture in aphasic speakers: Preliminary findings. Aphasiology, 17, 453-464.

Byrne, L., Dacakis, G., & Douglas, J. (2003). Perception of pragmatic communication abilities In male-to-female transsexuals. Advances In Speech Language Pathology, 5, 15-25.

Douglas, J., Brown, L., & Barry, S. (2002). Does aphasia therapy work? Exploring the evidence in systematic reviews. Brain Impairment, 3, 17-27.

Rose, M., Douglas, J., & Matyas, T. (2002). The comparative effectiveness of gesture and verbal treatments for a specific phonologic naming impairment. Aphasiology, 10-11, 1001-1030.

Eadie, P., Fey, M., Douglas, J., & Parsons, C. (2002). Profiles of grammatical morphology and sentence imitation in children with specific language impairment and Down Syndrome. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 45, 720-732.

Rose, M., & Douglas, J. (2001). The differential facilitatory effects of gesture and visualisation processes on object naming in aphasia. Aphasiology, 15, 977-990.

Douglas, J., O’Flaherty, C., & Snow, P. (2000). Measuring perception of communicative ability: The development and evaluation of the La Trobe Communication Questionnaire. Aphasiology, 14, 251-268.

Douglas, J. M. & Spellacy, F. J. (2000). Correlates of depression in adults with severe traumatic brain injury and their carers. Brain Injury, 14, 71-88.

Barry, S. & Douglas, J. (2000). The social integration of individuals with aphasia. Advances in Speech Language Pathology. 2, 77-91.

Snow, P. & Douglas, J. (2000). Conceptual and methodological challenges in discourse assessment with TBI speakers: Towards an understanding. Brain Injury, 14, 397-415.

Lim, V., & Douglas, J. (2000). Impairment of lexical tone production in stroke patients with bilingual aphasia. Brain and Language, 74, 327-329.

Moorhouse, B., Douglas, J., Panaccio, J., & Steel, G. (1999). Use of the Arizona Battery for Dementia in an Australian context. The Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing, 4, 93-107.

Snow, P., Douglas, J., & Ponsford, J. (1999). Narrative discourse following severe traumatic brain injury: A longitudinal follow-up. Aphasiology, 13, 529-551.

Snow, P., Douglas, J., & Ponsford, J. (1998). Conversational discourse abilities following severe traumatic brain injury: A longitudinal follow-up. Brain Injury, 11, 911-935. (25%)

Stewart-Scott, A. & Douglas, J. (1998). Educational outcome for secondary and post secondary students following traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury, 4, 317-331.

Eadie, P., Parsons, C., & Douglas, J. (1997). A review of specific language impairment: language characteristics and linguistic interpretations. Asia Pacific Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing, 3, 149-164.

O’Flaherty, C. & Douglas, J. (1997). Living with cognitive-communicative difficulties following traumatic brain injury: using a model of interpersonal communication to characterise the subjective experience. Aphasiology. 11, 889-911.

Snow, P., Douglas, J., & Ponsford, J. (1997). Procedural discourse following traumatic brain injury. Aphasiology. 11, 947-968.

Korda, R. & Douglas, J. (1997). Attention deficits in stroke patients with aphasia. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 19, (4), 525-542.

Snow, P., Douglas, J., & Ponsford, J. (1997). Conversational assessment following traumatic brain injury: a comparison across two control groups. Brain Injury. 11, 409-430.

Douglas, J. & Spellacy, F. (1996). Indicators of long-term family functioning following severe traumatic brain injury in adults. Brain Injury. 10, (11), 819-839.

Snow, P., Douglas, J., & Ponsford, J. (1995). Discourse assessment following traumatic brain injury: a pilot study examining some demographic and methodological issues. Aphasiology, 9, (4), 365-380.

Douglas, J. (1992). The role and use of tests in speech pathology. Psychological Test Bulletin, 5, 94-97.

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Books and Books Chapters

Reilly, S., Douglas, J., & Oates, J. (Eds.). (2004). Evidence Based Practice Issues in Speech Pathology. London: Whurr.

Douglas, J., Brown, L., & Barry, S. (2004). The evidence base for the treatment of aphasia following stroke. In S. Reilly, J. Douglas, & J. Oates (Eds.). Evidence Based Practice Issues in Speech Pathology. London: Whurr.

Douglas, J. (2004). The evidence base for the treatment of cognitive-communicative disorders following traumatic brain injury in adults. In S. Reilly, J. Douglas, & J. Oates (Eds.). Evidence Based Practice Issues in Speech Pathology. London: Whurr.

Reilly, S., Oates, J. & Douglas, J. (2004). Future directions. In S. Reilly, J. Douglas, & J. Oates (Eds.). Evidence Based Practice Issues in Speech Pathology. London: Whurr.

Snow, P. & Douglas, J. (1999). Discourse rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury. In C. Code,S. McDonald, & L. Togher (Eds.) Communication Disorders Following Traumatic Brain Injury. London: Psychology Press, 271-320.

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Refereed Conference Proceedings

Douglas, J., & Spellacy, F. (1998). Long-term problems and needs following severe traumatic brain injury. Expanding Horizons: Speech Pathology Australia National Conference Proceedings. pp 35-47.

Stewart-Scott, A., & Douglas, J. (1997). Reintegration of post-secondary students following traumatic brain injury: A review of the literature. In J. Ponsford, V. Anderson and P. Snow Eds.) International Perspectives on Traumatic Brain Injury. Proceedings of the Fifth International Association for the Study of Traumatic Brain Injury Conference, Melbourne, Australia; November. (Australian Academic Press, Brisbane, Australia). pp 388-392.)

McNeill-Brown, D. & Douglas, J. (1997). Perceptions of communication skills in severely brain-injured adults. In J. Ponsford, V. Anderson and P. Snow (Eds.) International Perspectives on Traumatic Brain Injury. Proceedings of the Fifth International Association for the Study of Traumatic Brain Injury Conference, Melbourne, Australia; November. (Australian Academic Press, Brisbane, Australia). pp 247-250.

Snow, P., Douglas, J., & Ponsford, J. (1994). Discourse assessment following traumatic brain injury: some theoretical and methodological hurdles. In C. Haslam, J. Ewing, R. Farnach, U. Johns, & B. Weeks (Eds.), Cognitive Functioning in Health, Disease, and Disorder: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Brain Impairment Conference. Bowen Hills: Academic Press.

Douglas, J. (1990). Understanding traumatic brain injury: The first step to effective clinical intervention. Keynote address. Making Headway: Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists Association. Christchurch. 1-12.

Douglas, J. (1990). Traumatic brain injury: Stages of recovery and management. Making Headway: Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists Association. Christchurch. 13-23.

Douglas, J. (1990). Traumatic brain injury and the family. Making Headway: Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists Association. Christchurch. 24-30.

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Non-Referees Professional Publications, Reports and Editorials

Douglas, J. & Foreman, P. (2005). Supported Leisure Options: Client Outcome Project. Report for the Transport Accident Commission.

Eadie, P. & Douglas, J. (2005). Memory and language across the lifespan. ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing, 1, 3-5.

Douglas, J. (2004). Social communication: recovery from a speech and language perspective. Proceedings of the Victorian Brain Injury Recovery Association Workshop, (Sept), 28-35.

Tate, R., & Douglas, J. (2003). Cognitive rehabilitation: emerging issues and paradigm shifts (editorial). Brain Impairment, 4(1), ii-iv.

Tate, R., & Douglas, J. (2002). Evidence-based clinical practice in rehabilitation (editorial). Brain Impairment, 3(1), ii-iv.

Douglas, J. (2002). Long-term adjustment following severe traumatic brain injury. Proceedings of the Victorian Brain Injury Recovery Association Workshop, (Oct), 4-9.

Moorhouse, B., Douglas, J., Panaccio, J., & Steel, G. (1999). Current issues in speech pathology assessment and management of dementia. The Australian Communication Quarterly, June, 6-9.

Snow, P., & Douglas, J. (1998). Assessing conversation in the traumatically brain injured speaker. The Australian Communication Quarterly, Winter, 14-22.

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