Lesley Pritchard, PT, PhD

Professor, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine - Physical Therapy

Contact Overview Courses Publications

Contact

Professor, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine - Physical Therapy

Email: lwiart@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-2971
Address: 3-60 Corbett (E.A.) Hall
8205 - 114 St NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2G4

Overview

About

Credentials

PhD - University of Alberta - 2008
MScPT - University of Alberta - 2002
BScPT - University of Alberta - 1996

Research

Professional Interests

Participation of children with motor disabilities in their schools and communities
Families perspectives on rehabilitation service delivery - implications for service delivery and policy
Effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions for children with cerebral palsy
Pediatric rehabilitation service delivery

Current Research

Evaluation of the effectiveness of robotic gait training and gait-focused physical therapy programs for children and youth with cerebral palsy
Evaluation of a child-focussed approach to rehabilitation goal setting (The ENGAGE study)

Teaching

Lesley teaches PTHER 563 (Gross Motor Development and Pediatric Physical Therapy) and REHAB 601 (Research Design in Rehabilitation Research)

Courses

REHAB 601 - Research Design in Rehabilitation Science

This course will provide students an overview of methodological approaches in health science and rehabilitation research, including features and issues that impact on research methodology (i.e., design, data collection, and analysis). Students will gain an understanding of the philosophical and theoretical perspectives that underpin quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches in health research.

Winter Term 2025

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Featured Publications

Interpretive description as a qualitative research framework in speech-language pathology: A scoping review

Shanda Duggleby Wenzel, Monique Charest, Lesley Pritchard-Wiart

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 2025 February; 10.1080/17549507.2025.2457408

Gross Motor Family Report: Refinement and evaluation of psychometric properties

Elton D. D. Magalhães, Peter Rosenbaum, Marilyn Wright, F. Virginia Wright, Lesley Pritchard, Kennea M. A. Ayupe, Ana Carolina de Campos, Rosane S. Morais, Hercules R. Leite, Paula S. C. Chagas

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 2025 February; 10.1111/dmcn.16042

Longitudinal Associations Between Movement Behaviours and Development Among Infants Using Compositional Data Analysis

Valerie Carson, Zhiguang Zhang, Madison Boyd, Lesley Pritchard, Kylie D. Hesketh

Child: Care, Health and Development. 2025 January; 10.1111/cch.70025

Parents’ perspectives on speech-language assessment for their preschool-aged children: A scoping review

Shanda Duggleby Wenzel, Lesley Pritchard-Wiart, Monique Charest

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 2024 December; 10.1080/17549507.2024.2438080

Development of clinical considerations for ankle-foot orthosis prescription and monitoring in young children with cerebral palsy: a Delphi study

Pegah Firouzeh, Christopher Morris, Lyn K. Sonnenberg, Patricia Manns, Lesley Pritchard

Disability and Rehabilitation. 2024 December; 10.1080/09638288.2024.2435516

Parent experience with ankle-foot orthoses for their young children with cerebral palsy: a qualitative study

Pegah Firouzeh, Christopher Morris, Lyn K. Sonnenberg, Patricia Manns, Lesley Pritchard

Disability and Rehabilitation. 2024 May; 10.1080/09638288.2023.2218651

Pattern of Visual-Motor Integration, Visual Perception, and Fine Motor Coordination Abilities in Children Being Assessed for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Danielle Johnston, Lesley Pritchard, Erin Branton, Douglas P. Gross, Sandy Thompson-Hodgetts

Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. 2023 July; 10.1097/DBP.0000000000001200

“Walking on both sides of the fence”: A qualitative exploration of the challenges and opportunities facing emergent clinician‐scientists in child health

Lesley Pritchard, Katherine S. Bright, Catharine M. Walsh, Susan Samuel, Queenie K. W. Li, Krista Wollny, Marinka Twilt, Lianne Tomfohr‐Madsen, Linda Pires, Gina Dimitropoulos

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 2023 February; 10.1111/jep.13719

A multi-center, pragmatic, effectiveness-implementation (hybrid I) cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate a child-oriented goal-setting approach in paediatric rehabilitation (the ENGAGE approach): a study protocol

Lesley Pritchard-Wiart, Sandy Thompson-Hodgetts, Ashley B. McKillop, Rhonda Rosychuk, Kelly Mrklas, Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, Jennifer Zwicker, John Andersen, Gillian King, Pegah Firouzeh

BMC Pediatrics. 2022 December; 10.1186/s12887-022-03381-4

Training Intervention and Program of Support for Fostering the Adoption of Family-Centered Telehealth in Pediatric Rehabilitation: Protocol for a Multimethod, Prospective, Hybrid Type 3 Implementation-Effectiveness Study

Karen Hurtubise, Isabelle Gaboury, Jade Berbari, Marie-Claude Battista, Tibor Schuster, Michelle Phoenix, Peter Rosenbaum, Olaf Kraus De Camargo, Stacey Lovo, Lesley Pritchard-Wiart, Jill G Zwicker, Audrée Jeanne Beaudoin, Mélanie Morin, Thomas Poder, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Geneviève Roch, Danielle Levac, Michel Tousignant, Heather Colquhoun, Kimberly Miller, Jennifer Churchill, Paula Robeson, Andréa Ruegg, Martine Nault, Chantal Camden

JMIR Research Protocols. 2022 October; 10.2196/40218

Reflecting on the COVID‐19 pandemic and moving forward: Make it Matter

Lesley Pritchard

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. 2022 September; 10.1111/dmcn.15306

Training Intervention and Program of Support (TIPS) for fostering adoption of family-centred telehealth in pediatric rehabilitation: Protocol for a multi-method, prospective hybrid type 3 implementation-effectiveness study (Preprint)

Karen Hurtubise, Isabelle Gaboury, Jade Berbari, Marie-Claude Battista, Tibor Schuster, Michelle Phoenix, Peter Rosenbaum, Olaf Kraus De Camargo, Stacey Lovo, Lesley Pritchard-wiart, Jill Zwicker, Mélanie Morin, Thomas Poder, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Geneviève Roch, Danielle Levac, Michel Tousignant, Heather Colquhoun, Kimberly Miller, Jennifer Churchill, Paula Robeson, Andréa Ruegg, Martine Nault

2022 July; 10.2196/preprints.40218