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Dr. Sonia Gulati is also the Undergraduate Field Placement Advisor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Primary Fields of Specialization:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disability, Global Health, Community-Based Rehabilitation, Children & Youth with Disabilities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courses taught: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HLTH1001: Principles of Health
\nHLTH3101: Global Health
\nHLTH3503: Disability and Chronic Health Conditions
\nHLTH4503: Trauma-related Disability and Impairments
\nHLTH4906: Capstone-Research Essay
\nHLTH4909: Capstone-Field Placement and Research Project<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/strong>Academic Interests: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I value being in a position that provides me the opportunity to work with a dynamic student body in order to shape the learning environment.  I teach primarily in the areas of disability, rehabilitation, and global health.  I am also responsible for developing research-based field placements locally, nationally, and internationally for undergraduate students.  As a faculty member in a growing department, I have a strong interest in curriculum design, classroom instruction, and experiential learning.  I have designed and implemented courses on global health, disability and illness, determinants of health, psychosocial aspects of aging, health communication, population trends & international development, and research methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am also a registered Occupational Therapist.  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 health conditions and the challenges that people face when living with an illness or a disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My primary research interests are in the following broad areas: global health, community-based rehabilitation in underserved areas, children\/youth with disabilities, therapeutic communication, and action research methodologies. To date, my global health work has involved collaborating with organizations in India, Trinidad, Guyana, and Belize. I have also conducted multi-centered\/multi-province research that focused on immigrant health and health service delivery in pediatric oncology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My current research interests align well with my teaching responsibilities, clinical training, and research experience.\u00a0 I am a member of the\u00a0Researchers in Accessibility<\/em>\u00a0initiative at Carleton. \u00a0I am interested in exploring how to make field placement education \u2013 in undergraduate\/graduate health sciences programs \u2013 more accessible for students with chronic health conditions or disabilities.\u00a0 Most recently, I completed a project where the overall aim of the research was to develop a patient-reported outcome measure for children\/youth with hypospadias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously, I served on Carleton\u2019s Senate<\/em> and I was a member of the Carleton\u00a0Committee on\u00a0Community Engaged Pedagogy<\/em>.\u00a0 I was the Carleton delegate for the Eastern Ontario Academic Health Sciences Network<\/em>.\u00a0 I also served on the Board of Directors of Mental Health Without Borders<\/em>, a non-profit organization based in Waterloo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carleton Honours\/Awards: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professional Achievement Award
\nNew Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selected Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keays, M. A., Tsangaris, E., Shah, Y. B., Hyacinthe, N., Gulati, S.<\/strong>, Gordon, A., Fernandez, N., Bosse, P., Klassen, A., & Long, C. J. (2026). Online health educational resources for hypospadias diagnosis and treatment: An evaluation of contemporary websites and qualitative review of patient and family information needs. Journal of Pediatric Urology, 22<\/em>(1). doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jpurol.2025.12.001<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keays, M. A., Tsangaris, E., Gulati, S.<\/strong>, Long, C., McNamara, E., Braga, L. H., Klassen, A. (2025). Protocol for the development of a patient-reported outcome measure for patients with hypospadias. BMJ Open<\/em>, 15<\/em>(5), <\/em>15:e088619. doi:10.1136\/ bmjopen-2024-088619<\/p>\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>,Klassen, A., & Dix, D. (2014). Demands and rewards of working within multidisciplinary teams in pediatric oncology: The experiences of Canadian health care providers. The Qualitative Report, 19<\/em>(36), 1-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klassen, A., Gulati, S.<\/strong>, & Dix, D. (2012). Health care providers\u2019 perspectives about working with parents of children with cancer: A qualitative study. Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, <\/em>29<\/em>(2), 92-97.<\/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

Watt, L., Gulati, S.<\/strong>, Shaw, N., Sung, L., Dix, D., Poureslami, I., & Klassen, A. (2012). Perceptions about complementary and alternative medicine use among Chinese immigrant parents of children with cancer. Supportive Care in Cancer<\/em>, 20<\/em>(2), 253-260. <\/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, <\/em>21<\/em>(5), 558-562.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klassen, A., Gulati, S.<\/strong>, Granek, L., Rosenberg-Yunger, Z., Watt, L., Sung, L., Klaassen, R., Dix, D., & Shaw, N. T. (2012). Understanding the health impact of caregiving: A qualitative study of immigrant parents and single parents of children with cancer. Quality of Life Research, <\/em>21<\/em>(9), 1595-1605.<\/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, <\/em>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","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2535,"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":[6],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-2159","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor (Teaching Stream), OT Reg. (Ont.) ","cu_people_degree":"BScOT (Queen\u2019s), PhD (Queen\u2019s, School of Rehabilitation Therapy), Post-Doc (McMaster, Department of Pediatrics) \t","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"sonia.gulati@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","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\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5958,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/2159\/revisions\/5958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/healthsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}