Dr. Nicole Yantzi
Dr. Nicole Yantzi is the Director of the ECHO Research Centre. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Laurentian university. She completed her PhD at Queen's University in 2005. Her PhD thesis was jointly funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR) and the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation and was titled "Balancing and negotiating the home as a place for caring: The experiences of families caring for children with long-term care needs." Dr. Yantzi also held post-doctoral fellowships at the CIHR strategic research and training initiative in Health Care, Technology and Place (University of Toronto) and with Dr. Nancy Young in the Department of Population Health Sciences (Hospital for Sick Children).
Her research focuses on the daily environments of children with disabilities and their families. One part of this research program examines the physical, policy, and service barriers that children and their families experience. The other part examines these barriers and challenges to full participation by including children with disabilities as active research participants.
Dr. Yantzi has led the development of a School Accessibility Tool (the SAT) which has been endorsed by a local disabled children's group from the Independence Centre and Network (ICAN). She was also a co-investigator on a Norman Saunders Complex Care grant (SickKids Hospital) examining the migration patterns of families of children with chronic complex conditions. She has collaborated with school boards, service providers and municipalities to evaluate and improve the accessibility and inclusiveness of children’s daily environments.
Keywords: director, children with disabilities, accessibility
Contact:
Telephone: 705-675-1151, ext. 3355
Email: [email protected]
Her research focuses on the daily environments of children with disabilities and their families. One part of this research program examines the physical, policy, and service barriers that children and their families experience. The other part examines these barriers and challenges to full participation by including children with disabilities as active research participants.
Dr. Yantzi has led the development of a School Accessibility Tool (the SAT) which has been endorsed by a local disabled children's group from the Independence Centre and Network (ICAN). She was also a co-investigator on a Norman Saunders Complex Care grant (SickKids Hospital) examining the migration patterns of families of children with chronic complex conditions. She has collaborated with school boards, service providers and municipalities to evaluate and improve the accessibility and inclusiveness of children’s daily environments.
Keywords: director, children with disabilities, accessibility
Contact:
Telephone: 705-675-1151, ext. 3355
Email: [email protected]
