Neurodevelopment Network - Lunch & Learn NZ Series
Sleep – Working together to supportchildren and their whānau…Why it’s everyones’ business
12pm - 12.30pm | Tuesday 10 June, 2025 | Hosted on Zoom
In this session, Jane Hamer shares insights from the AusACPDM conference in Cairns (2024), which she attended with support from the Paediatric Society. While it's impossible to cover the full range of presentations, this session focuses on sleep for children with disability, drawing from a workshop titled ‘Promoting Wellbeing for children, young people and their families: A practical approach’.
This talk provides a brief overview of the science of sleep, and common factors contributing to sleep difficulties. The Wellness Wheel model and the SleepLinks C Words and Sleep Comfort map will be presented as ways to centre on why sleep matters, and why its everyone’s business.
This will be followed by a knowledge translation session in July.
Access the session here.
About Jane Hamer
Jane Hamer is a paediatric physiotherapist and also the Clinical Leader of Paediatric Physiotherapy (part-time), for Te Whatu Ora Waitematā (West Auckland and North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand). She has worked with children for 30+years, primarily in Child Development Teams, but also in the private and education sector, in PICU, and on the local acute paediatric medical ward. Her passion is supporting children with complex disability, and their families. She graduated with a Masters of Health Science from Otago University in 2023, exploring caregivers experience of implementing sleep systems for their children. She has a particular interest in sleep and 24-hr postural care for children with complex disability and is currently working on a co-design partnership project with families, to implement the research findings into practice. Jane is a committee member for the Physiotherapy NZ Paediatric Special Interest Group and is also a member of the Paediatric Society Neurodevelopmental Reference Group, and the PSNZ Lunch and Learn Group.
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