Publications

This page contains DSI Project team publications and related individual author publications.

Moira Dunsmore

Moira Dunsmore
  • Dunsmore, M. & Watharow, A.M. (2024). Dual Sensory Impairment and the Older Person: An invisible epidemic? Lived Places Publishing, New York.
  • Dunsmore, M.E., Watharow, A.M., and Schneider, J. (2024). An invisible disability: Communication, patient safety and Dual Sensory Impairment in older persons. Journal of Advanced Nursing https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.16159
  • (*In submission) Dunsmore, M.E., Schneider, J., McKenzie, H., & Gillespie, J.A. (2024). Exploring liminal spaces in older age: navigating the enduring state of Dual Sensory Impairment (DSI). Sage Open
  • Tyagi, V., Saravanos, G., Dunsmore, M., Power, T. and McCormack, B. (2024). Planetary health and person-centred healthcare practice. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 00, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.16153
  • Dunsmore, M.E., Wiseman, T. & Randall, S. (2024). Bridging the gap for undergraduate nursing student and academics in learning in a remote area placement: A descriptive qualitative study. Journal of Nurse Education
  • Dunsmore, M. (2022). An Invisible Disability: navigating the enduring state of dual sensory impairment (DSI) in older age. (Published abstract).
  • Dunsmore, M.E., Schneider, J., McKenzie, H., & Gillespie, J.A. (2020). The Effort of Caring: The Caregivers’ Perspective of Dual Sensory Impairment. Front. Educ. 5:572201. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.572201
  • McMahon, C., Schneider, J., Dunsmore, M., Gopinath, B., Kifley, A., Mitchell, P., Wang, J., Leeder, S. (2017). Screening, Education, and Rehabilitation Services for Hearing Loss Provided to Clients with Low Vision: Measured and Perceived Value among Participants of the Vision-Hearing Project. Ear and Hearing, 38(1), 57-64. DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000351
  • Schneider, J., Dunsmore, M., McMahon, C., Gopinath, B., Kifley, A., Mitchell, P., Leeder, S., Wang, J. (2014). Improving Access to Hearing Services for People with Low Vision: Piloting a “Hearing Screening and Education Model” of Intervention. Ear and Hearing, 35(4), e153-e161. DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0000000000000038

Annmaree Watharow

Annmaree Watharow

Peer reviewed journal publications

  • Smith-Merry, J., Watharow, A., Gilroy, J. (2023). The NDIS at ten years: Designing an equitable scheme for the next decade. Medical Journal of Australia, 218(7), 291-294. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51899
  • Potts, A., Bednarek, M., Watharow, A. (2023). Super, social, medical: Person-first and identity-first representations of disabled people in Australian newspapers, 2000-2019, Discourse and Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265231156504  
  • Watharow, A. (2022). Book Review – ‘Disability reporting handbook: A detailed handbook to guide better newsroom reporting of people with disability, by Briana Blackett et al.’, in Ethical space – The International Journal of Communication Ethics. – no link 
  • Watharow, A. & Wayland, S. (2022). Making Qualitative Research Inclusive: Methodological Insights in Disability Research, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 21(April). https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069221095316
  • Watharow, A. (2021). The air that I breathe: Surviving the loss of the communication senses through narrative writing. Life Writing,18(2), 171-180. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2019.1570582 

Other Books and Book Chapters

  • Watharow, A. (2024). The Lie of the Land, in SB Mintz & G Fraser (eds), Placing Disability. Literary Disability Studies (pp.139-148). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41219-6_15  
  • Watharow, A., Joseph, S & Fagan, F. (2023). Creating Ethical Storytelling Spaces for People Living with Disability and Trauma in Narrative Medicine: Trauma and Ethic. Vernon Press.
  • Watharow, A. (2023) Improving the Experience of Health Care for People Living with Sensory Disability: Knowing what is going on. New York: Lived Places Publishing.
  • Watharow, A. (2020). Owning my room: Building a safe, accessible and productive space for student researchers with complex communication disabilities, in C. Burke & B. Byrne (eds), Social research and disability: developing inclusive research spaces for disabled researchers (pp. 15–39). Routledge, New York. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429426124,
  • Watharow, A. (2019). Rewriting the ontological self following the loss of the communication senses’, in B. Avieson, F. Giles, & S. Joseph (eds), Still here: Memoirs of trauma, illness and loss (pp.17-33).  Routledge, New York. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429201707

Other Publications

Julie Schneider

Julie Schneider

Older journal publications related to hearing loss and DSI

  • McMahon, C., Schneider, J., Gopinath, B. (2014). Adult hearing screening: consideration for a holistic model. ENT & Audiology News, 23(2), 89-90. https://www.entandaudiologynews.com/features/audiology-features/post/adult-hearing-screening-consideration-for-a-holistic-model
  • Schneider, J., McMahon, C., Gopinath, B., Kifley, A., Barton, R., Mitchell, P., Leeder, S.R., Wang, JJ. (2014). Dual sensory impairment and hearing aid use among low vision clients in Australia: the Vision-Hearing project. Journal of Aging and Health, 26(2), 231-249. https://doi.org/10.1177/0898264313513610
  • Gopinath, B., Schneider, J., Flood, V., McMahon, C.M., Burlutsky, G., Leeder, S.R., & Mitchell, P. (2014).  Association between diet quality with concurrent vision and hearing impairment in older adults, JNHA – The Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, 18(3), 251-6. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12603-013-0408-x
  • McMahon, C., Gopinath, B., Schneider, J., Reath, J., Hickson, L., Leeder, S.R., Mitchell, P., & Cowan, R. (2013). The need for improved detection and management of adult-onset hearing loss in Australia, International Journal of Otolaryngology, 2013: 308509. Published online 2013 April 28. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2013/308509
  • Gopinath, B., Schneider, J., McMahon, C., Burlutsky, G., Leeder, S.R., & Mitchell, P. (2013). Dual sensory impairment in older adults increases the risk of mortality: a population-based study. PLoS One. 8(3), e55054. Published online 2013 March 4. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/308509
  • Gopinath, B., Hickson, L., Schneider, J., McMahon, C., Burlutsky, G., Leeder, S.R., & Mitchell, P. (2012). Hearing-impaired adults are at increased risk of experiencing emotional distress and social engagement restrictions five years later. Age and Ageing, 41(5), 618-623. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afs058
  • Gopinath, B., Schneider, J., Hickson, L., McMahon, C., Burlutsky, G., Leeder, S.R., & Mitchell, P. (2012). Hearing handicap, rather than measured hearing impairment, predicts poorer quality of life over 10 years in older adults. Maturitas, 72(2), 146-151.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2012.03.010
  • Schneider, J., Gopinath, B., McMahon, C., Teber, E., Leeder, S., Wang, JJ., & Mitchell, P. (2012). Prevalence and 5-year incidence of dual sensory impairment in an older Australian population. Annals of Epidemiology, 22(4), 295-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2012.02.004
  • Gopinath, B., Schneider, J., McMahon, C., Teber, E., Leeder, S.R., & Mitchell, P. (2012). Severity of age-related hearing loss is associated with impaired activities of daily living. Age and Ageing, 41(2), 195-200. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afr155
  • Schneider, J., Gopinath, B., McMahon, C., Leeder, S.R., Mitchell, P., & Wang, JJ. (2011). Dual sensory impairment in older age. Journal of Aging and Health, 23(8), 1309-24. https://doi.org/10.1177/0898264311408418
  • Gopinath, B., Schneider, J., Hartley, D., Teber, E., McMahon, C., Leeder, S.R., & Mitchell, P. (2011). Incidence and predictors of hearing aid use and ownership among older adults with hearing loss. Annals of Epidemiology, 21(7), 497-506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2011.03.005
  • Mitchell, P., Gopinath, B., Wang, J., McMahon, C., Schneider, J., Rochtchina, E., & Leeder, S.R. (2011). Five-year incidence and progression of hearing impairment in an older population. Ear and Hearing, 32(2), 251-257. DOI: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181fc98bd
  • Schneider, J., Gopinath, B., Karpa, M., McMahon, C., Rochtchina, E., Leeder, S.R., & Mitchell, P. (2010). Hearing loss impacts on the use of community and informal supports. Age and Ageing, 39(4), 458-64. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afq051
  • Schneider, J., Gopinath, B., McMahon, C., Britt, H., Harrison, C., Usherwood, T., Leeder, S.R., & Mitchell, P. (2010). Role of general practitioners in managing age-related hearing loss. The Medical Journal of Australia, 192(1), 20-23. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03395.x https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2010/192/1/role-general-practitioners-managing-age-related-hearing-loss
  • Gopinath, B., Wang, J., Schneider, J., Burlutsky, G., Snowdon, J., McMahon, C., Leeder, S.R., & Mitchell, P. (2009). Depressive symptoms in older adults with hearing impairments: the Blue Mountains Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 57(7), 1306-1308. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02317.x
  • Gopinath, B., Schneider, J., Rochtchina, E., Leeder, S.R., & Mitchell, P. (2009). Association between age-related hearing loss and stroke in an older population. Stroke: A Journal of Cerebral Circulation, 40(4), 1496-8. https://doi.org/10.1161/strokeaha.108.535682
  • Gopinath, B., Rochtchina, E., Wang, J., Schneider, J., Leeder, S.R., Mitchell, P. (2009). Prevalence of age-related hearing loss in older adults: Blue Mountains study. Archives of Internal Medicine, 169(4), 415-416. https://doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2008.597
  • Schneider, J. (2006). Becoming Deafblind: Negotiating a place in a hostile world. (Abstract) Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 53(3), 247-248. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1630.2006.00587.x

Book chapter

  • McMahon, C., Schneider, J., Gopinath, B., Dunsmore, M., & Mitchell, P. (2019). Dual sensory impairment (dsi). In J. Damico, & M. Ball (Eds.), The SAGE encyclopedia of human communication sciences and disorders (Vol. 1, pp. 626-626). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483380810.n208