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Ms Meaghan McAllister

Meaghan is a Research Project Coordinator with the Missing Voices project within the School of Medical and Health Sciences.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Speech Pathology, La Trobe University, 2002.

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Armstrong, B., Colegate, K., Papertalk, L., Crowe, S., McAllister, M., Hersh, D., Ciccone, N., Godecke, E., Katzenellenbogen, J., Coffin, J. (2024). Intersectionality and Its Relevance in the Context of Aboriginal People with Brain Injury in Australia. Seminars in Speech and Language, 45(1), 56 - 70. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0043-1776755.
  • Drew, N., McAllister, M., Coffin, J., Robinson, M., Katzenellenbogen, J., Armstrong, B. (2024). Healing Right Way Randomised Clinical Controlled Trial enhancing services for Aboriginal people with brain injury: Translation principles and activities. Brain Impairment, 25(2), Article number IB23109. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1071/IB23109.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Armstrong, B., Rai, T., Hersh, D., Thompson, S., Coffin, J., Ciccone, N., Flicker, L., Cadilhac, D., Godecke, E., Woods, D., Hayward, C., Hankey, G., McAllister, M., Katzenellenbogen, J. (2022). Statistical Analysis Plan for the stepped-wedge clinical trial Healing Right Way - Enhancing Rehabilitation Services for Aboriginal Australians after Brain Injury. Trials, 23(1), Article Number 886. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06800-0.
  • Armstrong, B., McAllister, M., Coffin, J., Robinson, M., Thompson, S., Katzenellenbogen, J., Colegate, K., Papertalk, L., Hersh, D., Ciccone, N., White, J. (2022). Communication services for Indigenous peoples after stroke and traumatic brain injury: Alignment of Sustainable Development Goals 3, 16 and 17 within the First Nations context in Australia. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 25(1), 147-151. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2022.2145356.

2021

Journal Articles

  • Armstrong, B., Coffin, J., Hersh, D., Katznellenbogen, J., Thompson, S., Ciccone, N., Flicker, L., Woods, D., Hayward, C., Dowell, C., McAllister, M. (2021). “You felt like a prisoner in your own self, trapped”: the experiences of Aboriginal people with acquired communication disorders. Disability and Rehabilitation, 43(13), 1903-1916. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2019.1686073.
  • Armstrong, B., McCoy, K., Clinch, R., Merritt, M., Speedy, R., McAllister, M., Heine, K., Ciccone, N., Robinson, M., Coffin, J. (2021). The development of aboriginal brain injury coordinator positions: a culturally secure rehabilitation service initiative as part of a clinical trial. Primary Health Care Research and Development, 22(Sep 2021), Article number e49. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1463423621000396.
  • Armstrong, B., Coffin, J., Hersh, D., Katznellenbogen, J., Thompson, S., Flicker, L., McAllister, M., Cadilhac, D., Rai, T., Godecke, E., Hayward, C., Hankey, G., Drew, N., Lin, I., Woods, D., Ciccone, N. (2021). Healing right way: study protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial to enhance rehabilitation services and improve quality of life in Aboriginal Australians after brain injury. BMJ Open, 11(9), Article number e045898. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045898.

2020

Journal Articles

  • Armstrong, B., McAllister, M., Hersh, D., Katzenellenbogen, J., Thompson, S., Coffin, J., Flicker, L., Woods, D., Hayward, C., Ciccone, N. (2020). A screening tool for acquired communication disorders in Aboriginal Australians after brain injury: lessons learned from the pilot phase. Aphasiology, 34(11), 1388-1412. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2019.1678107.

2019

Journal Articles

  • Armstrong, B., Coffin, J., McAllister, M., Hersh, D., Katzenellenbogen, J., Thompson, S., Ciccone, N., Flicker, L., Cross, N., Arabi, L., Woods, D., Hayward, C. (2019). ‘I’ve got to row the boat on my own, more or less’: aboriginal australian experiences of traumatic brain injury. Brain Impairment, 20(2), 120-136. https://doi.org/10.1017/BrImp.2019.19.
  • Hersh, D., Armstrong, B., McAllister, M., Ciccone, N., Katzenellenbogen, J., Coffin, J., Thompson, S., Hayward, C., Flicker, L., Woods, D. (2019). General practitioners’ perceptions of their communication with Australian Aboriginal patients with acquired neurogenic communication disorders. Patient Education and Counseling, 102(12), 2310-2317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2019.07.029.
  • Ciccone, N., Armstrong, B., Hersh, D., Adams, M., McAllister, M. (2019). The Wangi (talking) project: A feasibility study of a rehabilitation model for aboriginal people with acquired communication disorders after stroke. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 21(3), 305-316. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2019.1595146.

2018

Journal Articles

  • Katzenellenbogen, J., Atkins, E., Thompson, S., Hersh, D., Coffin, J., Flicker, L., Hayward, C., Ciccone, N., Woods, D., Greenland, M., McAllister, M., Armstrong, B. (2018). Missing Voices: Profile, Extent, and 12-Month Outcomes of Nonfatal Traumatic Brain Injury in Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Adults in Western Australia Using Linked Administrative Records. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 33(6), 412-423. https://doi.org/10.1097/HTR.0000000000000371.

2017

Journal Articles

  • Armstrong, B., Ciccone, N., Hersh, D., Katzenellenbogen, J., Coffin, J., Thompson, S., Flicker, L., Hayward, C., Woods, D., McAllister, M. (2017). Development of the Aboriginal Communication Assessment After Brain Injury (ACAABI): a screening tool for identifying acquired communication disorders in Aboriginal Australians. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 19(3), 297-308. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2017.1290136.
  • Penn, C., Armstrong, B., Brewer, K., Purves, B., McAllister, M., Hersh, D., Godecke, E., Ciccone, N., Lewis, A. (2017). De-colonizing Speech-Language Pathology practice in acquired neurogenic disorders. Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders, 2(3), 91-99. https://doi.org/10.1044/persp2.SIG2.91.

2016

Journal Articles

  • Katzenellenbogen, J., Atkins, E., Thompson, S., Hersh, D., Coffin, J., Flicker, L., Hayward, C., Ciccone, N., Woods, D., McAllister, M., Armstrong, B. (2016). Missing Voices: Profile and extent of acquired communication disorders in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal adult stroke survivors in Western Australia using linked administrative records. International Journal of Stroke, 11(1), 103-116. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747493015607521.

2015

Journal Articles

  • Armstrong, B., Hersh, D., Katzenellenbogen, J., Coffin, J., Thompson, S., Ciccone, N., Hayward, C., Flicker, L., Woods, D., McAllister, M. (2015). Study Protocol: Missing Voices - Communication difficulties after stroke and traumatic brain injury in Aboriginal Australians. Brain Impairment, 16(2), 145-156. https://doi.org/10.1017/BrImp.2015.15.

Research Projects

  • Koorlangka Keniny: A Music Program to Improve the Health and Development of Aboriginal Children and Families, National Health and Medical Research Council, MRFF Preventive and Public Health Research Initiative - 2024 Maternal Health and Healthy Lifestyles Grant, 2025 ‑ 2029, $2,052,141.
  • Brain injury yarning circles: Support groups for Aboriginal Australians after brain injury, Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, Neurotrauma Research Program, 2020 ‑ 2022, $95,000.
  • Yarning together: Developing a culturally secure rehabilitation approach for Aboriginal Australians after brain injury, Lowitja Institute Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health CRC, 2017 Research Funding, 2018 ‑ 2019, $166,445.
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