Helen Beaton 

B App Sc (PT), Dip Women’s Health Obs & Gyn, Grad Dip PT(Dev Paed), MSc Prelim, Grad Cert Adv Sport Rehab

Helen.Beaton1@my.nd.edu.au

• Biography

  Helen graduated as a physiotherapist from the Western Australian Institute of Technology (Curtin University) in 1981 and remains a practicing clinical physiotherapist. Her work experience is across the life span but now focuses on developmental paediatrics and rehabilitation of children and their families, from neonates to the young adult. She has worked within the public and private health sector at tertiary, secondary and community care levels and the disability sector in metropolitan and rural areas. She is currently employed at the State Child Development Centre, West Perth, as an advanced level clinical physiotherapy practitioner, clinical educator and physiotherapy manager but also maintains her involvement with the King Edward Memorial Hospital Neonatal Physiotherapy service. Helen also runs a private paediatric clinic Touch Move and Play Physiotherapy Services in Perth.

  PhD thesis title: Do the behaviours of child carers influence the acquisition and resolution of cranial anomalies in infants? The I-Chat study.

  Supervisors: Prof Beth Hands, Vivienne Travlos
  Enrolled part-time through the School of Health Sciences