Dr Andrea Burgess, OT, PhD, Grad Cert Epi., works as a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Queensland and as an Occupational Therapist at the Queensland Paediatric Rehabilitation Service-Queensland Children’s Hospital. Andrea’s PhD examined hand function and self-care in children with cerebral palsy, utilising the Both Hands Assessment and the Assisting Hand Assessment. Andrea…

Ashlee Cruz is a Senior Occupational Therapist at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne where she has worked for the past 14 years. Ashlee has extensive experience in assessing children with neurological conditions and neurodevelopmental concerns.

Emma is an experienced occupational therapist at the Cerebral Palsy Alliance. She is passionate about early intervention and supporting upper limb development and function, with a primary clinical focus on young infants and children with cerebral palsy. She started teaching the AHA 18-18 course in 2024.

Dr Atefeh Taghizadeh completed her PhD in Occupational Therapy at La Trobe University, Melbourne in 2024, where she advanced her expertise in paediatric evidence-based therapy. During her doctoral studies, she developed the Upper Limb-Motor Learning Strategy Tool (UL-MLST), a knowledge translation tool designed to assist clinicians in implementing motor learning strategies within task-focused models of…

Martina Orlando is a developmental neuropsychomotor therapist at the Infant Neurology Section of IRCCS Stella Maris Scientific Institute, Pisa, Italy. Her primary clinical focus is the early detection and intervention in cerebral palsy (CP). She is specialized in assessing and treating upper limb impairments in infants and young children with unilateral CP. As a member…

Noriko Funakoshi is Japanese and worked for 8 years in Japan before moving to France in 2007. She has extensive clinical experience in France, specializing in working with children with cerebral palsy and other neurodevelopmental disorders. Since 2023, she has been teaching the AHA alongside Rachel Bard-Pondarré.

Danni is an experienced occupational therapist supporting young infants and children with cerebral palsy (CP). She works in the community as a private therapist and is completing a PhD, exploring the perceptual and cognitive skills of infants with CP. Danni has been involved in research studies focusing on interventions for young children with unilateral CP…

Elisa is a developmental neuropsychomotor therapist, with a Masters degree in Rehabilitation Science and a PhD in Neuroscience. Since 2012 she is collaborating with IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris on several research projects, at the Department of Developmental Neuroscience, specifically in the INNOVATE Lab (Innovative Technologies in Neurorehabilitation). She has had a position in the “Advanced…

Johanna Kembe is an occupational therapist working at Astrid Lindgren’s Children’s Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, in Stockholm, Sweden since 2014. Her primary clinical focus is on hand function and early detection of infants at risk of cerebral palsy enrolled in follow-up programs within the child neurology and neonatal units. Johanna is a PhD candidate at…

Annoek Louwers PhD, is a paediatric Occupational Therapist at AmsterdamUMC, Netherlands, with clinical focus on the treatment of children/adolescents with hand problems due to cerebral palsy and congenital hand deformities. Her PhD-work involved the development of the Assisting Hand Assessment for adolescents (Ad-AHA) and the validation of the AHA from 18 months to 18 years…