Child-led goal setting practices: from research to practice

This webinar will focus on child-led goal setting practices, which prioritise the active involvement of children with disability and developmental delay. Aisling will present findings from her recent research, which examines the use of child-led goal setting in published literature, expert consensus, and routine practice. The session will offer practical tools, strategies, and approaches that early childhood intervention practitioners can use to involve children in goal setting within clinical practice, aimed at enhancing their engagement and outcomes.

Reading: Research Snapshot No 16: https://www.preci.org.au/research-snap-shots/

Aisling has been working clinically as an occupational therapist with children, young people and their families for the past 15 years. She has practiced in diverse settings in Australia, the UK and Belgium, including the community, brain injury rehabilitation, specialist and mainstream schooling and private practice. She has managed an occupational therapy team within a multidisciplinary peadiatric service. She is passionate about family-centred, evidence-informed approaches to support children and their families.

Aisling has spent the past four years completing a doctorate at the University of Queensland (UQ), and teaching and supporting students at UQ and Australian Catholic University. Her PhD research has focused on empowering children to self-advocate in health and disability services through child-led goal-setting practices.

She is now  working as a lecturer in Occupational Therapy in the new Masters of Occupational program at the University of Tasmania.