Dr Charikleia Sinani

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Dr Charikleia Sinani

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c.sinani@yorksj.ac.uk

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School of Health Sciences

Biography

Job title:

Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy

Biography:

Charikleia worked as a physiotherapist in Greece and in the National Service for several years, specializing in neurological rehabilitation particularly children with neurodevelopmental disorders. In 1999 she was awarded a Scholarship from the ‘State Foundation of Scholarships’ (Greece) to do her MSc (full-time) in Neurorehabilitation at Brunel University and her PhD (part-time, partially funded) in children with Developmental Coordination Disorder at University of Leeds. Her first teaching job was as lab teaching assistant in the Sports and Exercise Department (Leeds). In 2003 she worked as senior lecturer in Physiotherapy at Manchester Metropolitan University and in 2004 she moved at Leeds Metropolitan University. In 2014 she became principal lecturer and the Head of Physiotherapy at themore...

Qualifications:

Charikleia is interested in developmental cognitive neuropsychology and developmental psychology, and the application of research in rehabilitation focusing on children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders particularly children with Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD or otherwise known as dyspraxia). Other areas of research interests and expertise include: praxis, imitation and its application to motor learning, imagery, transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) and its application to clinical populations, laterality/hand preference, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, mixed- methodologies and single case studies.

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Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780, Henderson, Rebecca A., Yeo, Sang-Hoon, Vaughan, Robert S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1573-7000 and Punt, T. David (2023) Implicit motor sequence learning in adults with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. (In Press)
Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780 (2019) Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to treat hemiplegia. Hemihelp (105). pp. 18-20.
Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780 (2010) Potential Facilitation of Upper Limb Performance in Children with Hemiplegia using TDCS. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology, 14 (6). p. 553.
Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780 (2010) Physical Education and children with hemiplegia. Workbook for parents and professionals. London, Hemihelp
Chambers, M. E., Sugden, D. A. and Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780 (2005) The nature of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. In: Sugden, M. E. and Sugden, D. A., (eds.) Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder. London, Whurr, pp. 1-18
Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780, Sugden, David A and Hill, Elisabeth L (2011) Gesture production in school vs. clinical samples of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and typically developing children. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 32. pp. 1270-1282.
Duff, C. J., Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780, Marshall, P. and Maz, J. (2016) Can Rebound Therapy Improve Gross Motor Skills and Participation in Children with Cerebral Palsy? Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists journal, 7 (1). pp. 4-13.
Anderson, A., Alexanders, J., Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780, Hayes, S. and Fogarty, M. (2015) Effects of ventilator vs manual hyperinflation in adults receiving mechanical ventilation: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials. Physiotherapy, 101 (2). pp. 103-110.

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1	Can Rebound Therapy Improve Gross Motor Skills and Participation in Children with Cerebral Palsy?	289
2	Effects of ventilator vs manual hyperinflation in adults receiving mechanical ventilation: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials	144
3	The nature of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder	142
4	Physical Education and children with hemiplegia. Workbook for parents and professionals.	93
5	Potential Facilitation of Upper Limb Performance in Children with Hemiplegia using TDCS	85
6	Gesture production in school vs. clinical samples of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and typically developing children	74	1
7	Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to treat hemiplegia	34	41
8	Implicit motor sequence learning in adults with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)	27	1