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.

My Latest

Ho, J., Moran, T. and Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780 (2011) OBTL in the Law School. A review in ‘OBTL Space’. Project Report. City University of Hong Kong.
Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780 (2015) Preparing a Scientific Poster. Council for Allied Health Professions.
Scheffler, G., Mon-Williams, M., Helms, P.J.B., Thomas, J., Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780 and Williams, J.H.G. (2013) Transcranial direct current stimulation in a case of hemiplegic cerebral palsy: A pilot investigation. In: SINAPSE, Annual Scientific Meeting, May 2013, Aberdeen, UK.
Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780, Angilley, H. and Champers, M. (2015) Effects of a school based intervention program with minimal specialist support in children with movement difficulties. Project Report. Sinani.
Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780, Henderson, R., Yeo, S-H, Vaugh, R. and Punt, D. (2019) Implicit motor sequence learning in adults with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). In: 13th International DCD Conference, June 2019, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780, Angilley, H. and Chambers, M. E. (2019) Is early intervention for children with movement difficulties feasible and effective when delivered by support staff with minimal specialist support? In: 13th International DCD Conference, June 2019, Jyväskylä, Finland. (Unpublished)
Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780, Angilley, H. and Chambers, M.E. (2019) Effects of a school intervention program delivered in children with movement difficulties with minimal specialist support. A feasibility study. In: Physiotherapy UK 2019, November, 2019, Birmingham, UK.
Hodgson, P., Jordan, Alastair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7669-4753, Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780 and Charura, Divine (2021) Systematic review and meta-analysis of the psycho-physical presentation of those with Parkinson’s disease (Review Protocol). In: York St John's Annual Research Conference, 8th October 2021, York, UK.
Hodgson, P., P., Jordan, Alastair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7669-4753, Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780 and Charura, Divine (2022) Systematic review and meta-analysis of the psycho-physical presentation of those with Parkinson’s disease (Mid-Review Report). In: Physiotherapy Research Society Annual Conference, 22 April 2022, Canterbury, UK.
Sinani, Charikleia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8942-8780, Wilmut, Kate, Mierzwinski, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9751-5865, Williams, Jacqueline, Licari, Melissa, Purcell, Catherine, Gentle, Judith and Wood, Greg (2023) The Impact of Developmental Coordination Disorder in the UK. In: DCD-UK 2023, 7-8 July 2023, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester.

My Most Viewed

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1	Can Rebound Therapy Improve Gross Motor Skills and Participation in Children with Cerebral Palsy?	298
2	The nature of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder	152
3	Effects of ventilator vs manual hyperinflation in adults receiving mechanical ventilation: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials	150
4	Physical Education and children with hemiplegia. Guidelines for teachers. The child with hemiplegia in primary education	100
5	Potential Facilitation of Upper Limb Performance in Children with Hemiplegia using TDCS	90
6	Gesture production in school vs. clinical samples of children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and typically developing children	79	1
7	Implicit motor sequence learning in adults with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)	62	2
8	Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) to treat hemiplegia	41	54
9	The Impact of Developmental Coordination Disorder in the UK	28	35
10	The Impact of Developmental Coordination Disorder in the UK	11	10