{"id":3311,"date":"2020-06-01T07:44:51","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T11:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/?post_type=cu_people&p=3311"},"modified":"2025-04-21T09:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:09:14","slug":"sonia-gulati","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/people\/sonia-gulati\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Gulati"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Research Interests<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I joined the new and growing Department of Health Sciences at Carleton in 2016.  I value being in a position that provides me the opportunity to work with students and faculty to shape the learning environment.  I teach mainly in the Global Health<\/em> and Disability & Chronic Illness Concentrations<\/em>.  I am also responsible for developing research-based field placements locally, nationally, and internationally for undergraduate students.  My primary research interests are in the following areas: community-based rehabilitation programs in underserved areas, children\/youth with disabilities, assistive technology in special education, therapeutic communication, and action research methodologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been a registered Occupational Therapist since 2003.  Clinically, most of my experience has been in hospital settings working with adults\/older adults in acute care, complex continuing care, geriatric rehabilitation, and outpatient vocational rehabilitation.  I value the therapist-client relationship and feel that it makes a significant contribution to my understanding of the challenges that people face when living with an illness or a disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accessibility<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As an educator, I have a strong interest in classroom instruction and experiential learning.  Specifically, I am interested in exploring how to make field placement education \u2013 in non-clinical undergraduate health sciences programs \u2013 more accessible for students with chronic health conditions or disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given my previous work in underserved regions, I continue to be interested in exploring ways to make the research process more accessible for children and youth with disabilities.  In the past, I used a range of participatory data collection methods when carrying-out research with children and youth with physical, cognitive, or sensory disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, given my research and clinical experience, I have a special interest in exploring the challenges experienced by newcomers when accessing health services in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selected Publications<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wiley, B., Cameron, D., Gulati, S.<\/strong>, & Hogg, A. (2014). Exploring the use of tablets (iPads) with children and young adults with disabilities in Trinidad. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology<\/em>. doi:10.3109\/17483107.2014.914251<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gulati, S.<\/strong>, Watt, L., Shaw, N., Sung, L., Poureslami, I., Klaassen, R., Dix, D. B., & Klassen, A. F. (2012). Communication and language challenges experienced by Chinese and South Asian immigrant parents of children with cancer in Canada: Implications for health services delivery. Pediatric Blood and Cancer, 58<\/em>(4), 572-578.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klassen, A., Gulati, S.<\/strong>, Watt, L., Banerjee, A., Sung, L., Klaassen, R., Dix, D., Poureslami, I., & Shaw, N. (2012). Immigrant to Canada, newcomer to childhood cancer: A qualitative study of challenges faced by immigrant parents. Psycho-Oncology, 21<\/em>(5), 558-562.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gulati, S.<\/strong>, Paterson, M., Medves, J., & Luce-Kapler, R. (2011). Adolescent group empowerment: Group-centred occupations to empower adolescents with disabilities in the urban slums of North India. Occupational Therapy International, 18<\/em>(2), 67-84.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gulati, S.<\/strong>, Paterson, M., Medves, J., & Luce-Kapler, R. (2011). Reflecting on the methodological aspects of a critical ethnographic approach used to inform change for adolescents with disabilities. The Qualitative Report, 16<\/em>(2), 523-562.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Sonia","cu_people_last_name":"Gulati","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[57],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-3311","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","hentry","cu_people_type-cu-researchers"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Department of Health Sciences ","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"sonia.gulati@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"6012","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3312,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/3311\/revisions\/3312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}