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  1. Referrals to allied health professionals for people with dementia: an analysis of general practitioner data from two Australian primary health networks

    Article • Family Medicine and Community Health, July 2025, BMJ

    Ms Kate Swaffer, Dr Natasha A Layton

  2. The Experience of Manual Wheelchair Training for People With Chronic and Progressive Conditions: Perspectives of Users and Trainers

    Article • Health Expectations, June 2025, Wiley

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  3. A study protocol for a pragmatic pre-post trial to determine the feasibility and effectiveness of a novel co-designed service to support health and wellbeing of older carers of older people

    Article • PLOS One, June 2025, PLOS

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  4. Understanding the psychosocial well‐being of people older than 65 years during emergency department admissions: A qualitative analysis of patients' accounts of their experiences

    Article • Australasian Journal on Ageing, May 2025, Wiley

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  5. A review of international clinical guidelines that inform the use of assistive technology to support adults living with progressive or complex conditions

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  6. My Assistive Technology Outcomes Framework: Tools for Assistive Technology Users and the Practitioners that Support Them

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  7. Shades of Grey in the Use, Underuse and Non-use of Assistive Products: Exploring the Ways Practitioners and Researchers Articulate Assistive Product Utilization

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  8. ‘George’s Gymnastics Program’, a Community Gymnastic Program for Children with a Disability: Perceptions of Participant Stakeholders

    Article • Disabilities, November 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  9. Assistive Technology to Support Dementia Management: Protocol for a Scoping Review of Reviews

    Article • JMIR Research Protocols, November 2024, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  10. Dementia Rehabilitation Training for General Practitioners and Practice Nurses: Does It Make a Difference?

    Article • Nursing Reports, October 2024, MDPI AG

    Ms Kate Swaffer, Dr Natasha A Layton

  11. Manual wheelchair training approaches and intended training outcomes for adults who are new to wheelchair use: A scoping review

    Article • Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, October 2024, Wiley

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  12. The Right to Rehabilitation for People With Dementia: A Codesign Approach to Barriers and Solutions

    Article • Health Expectations, September 2024, Wiley

    Ms Kate Swaffer, Dr Natasha A Layton

  13. A Global Environmental Scan of Competencies for Mobility Assistive Product Provision

    Article • Healthcare, September 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  14. Financial inclusion for people with disability: a scoping review

    Article • Global Health Action, May 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  15. Structures of Oppression or Inclusion: What Systemic Factors Impact Inclusion in Disability and Rehabilitation Research?

    Article • Social Sciences, April 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  16. Guidelines for assistive technology service provision – A scoping review

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, March 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  17. Assistive Technology to Support Dementia Management: Protocol for a Scoping Review of Reviews (Preprint)

    Article • February 2024, JMIR Publications Inc.

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  18. Diversity beyond Disability in Assistive Technology

    Article • Assistive Technology, December 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  19. It is time for nationally equitable access to assistive technology and home modifications in Australia: An equity benchmarking study

    Article • Australian Journal of Social Issues, September 2023, Wiley

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  20. Who cares for the carer? Codesigning a carer health and wellbeing clinic for older care partners of older people in Australia

    Article • Health Expectations, September 2023, Wiley

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  21. Digital Capabilities of Older People and Uptake of Online Healthy Ageing Interventions: An Australian Study

    Article • August 2023, IOS Press

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  22. Digital Enabling Assistive Technology Through the Provision Lens – A Global Perspective in a Nordic Context

    Article • August 2023, IOS Press

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  23. Unpacking ‘What Works’: A Commentary of the Key Learnings for ICT from the AT2030 Program

    Article • August 2023, IOS Press

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  24. My assistive technology outcomes framework: Rights-based outcome tools for consumers to ‘measure what matters’

    Article • Assistive Technology, July 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  25. Measuring what matters: a descriptive participatory case evaluation of a tool for measuring outcomes of assistive technology after acquired brain injury

    Article • Brain Impairment, July 2023, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  26. Occupational therapy and its roles in implementing the WHO/UNICEF global report on assistive technology

    Article • World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin, May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  27. Assistive Technology and the Wellbeing of Societies from a Capabilities Approach

    Article • Societies, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  28. When the Wheelchair Is Not Enough: What Capabilities Approaches Offer Assistive Technology Practice in Rural Argentina

    Article • Societies, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  29. Towards Co-Design in Delivering Assistive Technology Interventions: Reconsidering Roles for Consumers, Allied Health Practitioners, and the Support Workforce

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  30. Global outcomes of assistive technology: What we measure, we can improve

    Article • Assistive Technology, November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  31. Meeting Unmet Needs for Stroke Rehabilitation in Rural Public Health: Explorative Economic Evaluation of Upper Limb Robotics-Based Technologies through a Capabilities Lens

    Article • Societies, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  32. Do Assistive Products Enhance or Equalize Opportunities? A Comparison of Capability across Persons with Impairments Using and Not Using Assistive Products and Persons without Impairments in Bangladesh

    Article • Societies, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  33. Housing and Support for People with Disability: Perspectives of Motor Accident, Disability and Injury Insurers across Australia and New Zealand

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, August 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  34. Inclusive Research in Health, Rehabilitation and Assistive Technology: Beyond the Binary of the ‘Researcher’ and the ‘Researched’

    Article • Social Sciences, May 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  35. Assistive technology for people with deafblindness in Southern Africa: a Delphi study exploring dimensions of impact

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  36. Assistive Technology during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic: The Roles of Government and Civil Society in Fulfilling the Social Contract

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  37. Access to Assistive Technology during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic: Voices of Users and Families

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, October 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  38. Assistive Technology Provider Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, October 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  39. Co-Design of Social Impact Domains with the Huntington’s Disease Community

    Article • Disabilities, May 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  40. Co-creating an assistive technology peer-support community: learnings from AT Chat

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  41. Towards coherence across global initiatives in assistive technology

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  42. Assistive technology as a pillar of universal health coverage: qualitative analysis of stakeholder responses to the world health assembly resolution on assistive technology

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  43. Opening the GATE: systems thinking from the global assistive technology alliance

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, April 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  44. “I think I could have designed it better, but I didn’t think that it was my place”: a critical review of home modification practices from the perspectives of health and of design

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, April 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  45. The Convergence and Mainstreaming of Integrated Home Technologies for People with Disability

    Article • Societies, October 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  46. Stakeholder perspectives on research and development priorities for mobility assistive-technology: a literature review

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton, Saleh Alqahtani

  47. The inter-rater reliability of the Wheelchair Interface Questionnaire

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vicki Sheafer, Dr Natasha A Layton

  48. Innovation in Assistive Technology: Voice of the User

    Article • Societies, June 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  49. Assistive technology policy: a position paper from the first global research, innovation, and education on assistive technology (GREAT) summit

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    mac maclachlan, Dr Natasha A Layton, David Banes

  50. Enabling appropriate personnel skill-mix for progressive realization of equitable access to assistive technology

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Liezel Ennion, Dr Natasha A Layton

  51. Assistive technology and people: a position paper from the first global research, innovation and education on assistive technology (GREAT) summit

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  52. From individual innovation to global impact: the Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE) innovation snapshot as a method for sharing and scaling

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  53. From International Assistive Technology Professional Organisations

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  54. Currency and Competence of Occupational Therapists and Consumers with Rapidly Changing Technology

    Article • Occupational Therapy International, January 2017, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Emily J Steel, Dr Natasha A Layton

  55. Assistive Technology in Australia: Integrating theory and evidence into action

    Article • Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, April 2016, Wiley

    Dr Natasha A Layton, Dr Emily J Steel

  56. “An Environment Built to Include Rather than Exclude Me”: Creating Inclusive Environments for Human Well-Being

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, September 2015, MDPI AG

    Dr Emily J Steel, Dr Natasha A Layton

  57. Connections

    Article • Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, December 2014, Wiley

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  58. Challenges of user-centred assistive technology provision in Australia: shopping without a prescription

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emily J Steel, Dr Natasha A Layton

  59. Informing the Australian government on AT policies: ARATA’s experiences

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  60. Problems, Policies and Politics: making the case for better assistive technology provision in Australia

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, February 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  61. Sylvia Docker lecture: The practice, research, policy nexus in contemporary occupational therapy

    Article • Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, February 2014, Wiley

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  62. Choice and Control: Assistive Technology within Australia's New National Disability Insurance Scheme

    Article • January 2013, IOS Press

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  63. Advocacy via human rights legislation: the application to assistive technology and accessible environments

    Article • Australian Journal of Human Rights, August 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  64. Re-conceptualizing disability and assistive technology: Australian consumers driving policy change

    Article • Technology and Disability, July 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  65. Comparative effectiveness report: online survey tools

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology, May 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  66. Regarding Vol 54 issue 2 July 2007 ‘Development and current status of occupational therapy driver assessment and rehabilitation in Victoria, Australia’ Unsworth C

    Article • Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, June 2008, Wiley

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  67. Hard and soft assistive technologies: Defining roles for clinicians

    Article • Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, February 2008, Wiley

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  68. Using the ICF in economic analyses of Assistive Technology systems: Methodological implications of a user standpoint

    Article • Disability and Rehabilitation, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Natasha A Layton

  69. Fieldwork design for undergraduate occupational therapy students

    Article • Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, December 2007, Wiley

    Professor Jenny H Sim, Dr Natasha A Layton