Dr B-J Dee-Price

Dr Betty-Jean (B-J) Dee-Price is a disability health researcher with expertise in communication disability, patient and health worker communication self-efficacy, augmentative and alternative communication, social identity and disability, inclusive research methodolgies, mental health and disability.  Based primarily at UniSA, B-J holds academic status and/or affiliation with several Australian universities and is currently contracted on mental health projects with Lived Experience Australia and works closely with the Commission for Excellence and Innovation in Health (CEIH). B-J is the lead researcher of an innovative project titled 'Talking Scrubs' investigating the potential and feasibility of adapting everyday medical scrubs with pictorial icons for communication purposes. B-J comes from a background of diability lived experience, leadership in health and mental health community services and social work teaching. In 2018, B-J completed a PhD in complex communication access needs at Flinders University with a full scholarship from Southgate Institute for Health Society and Equity. B-J is ISAAC Australia's respresentative to the International Society of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) and has worked on, and led, several disability health projects with the following published articles.

Recent Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

Social determinants of health for children with cerebral palsy and their families - 2024 - Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology - 

Using Communication Assistants in Qualitative Health Research - 2023 - Qualitative Health Research 

Codesigning a social prescribing pathway to address the social determinant of health concerns of children with cerebral palsy and their families in Australia: a protocol for a mixed-methods formative research study - 2023 - BMJ Open

Protocol: Codesigning a social prescribing pathway to address the social determinant of health concerns of children with cerebral palsy and their families in Australia: a protocol for a mixed-methods formative research study - 2023 - PMC 

Recruiting Participants with Complex Communication Access Needs in Social Science Research:  Issues of Capacity and Consent - 2022 - Issues in Social Science

Every voice counts: exploring communication accessible research methods - 2021 - Disability & Society

From conversation starters in the front yard to talking to God: the sensory ethnography of communication access - 2021 - Disability and Rehabilitation

Do the ends justify the means? Disability research in social isolation - 2021 - Qualitative Social Work

Social researchers and participants with intellectual disabilities and complex communication (access) needs. Whose capacity? Whose competence? - 2020 - Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Response to Johnson  A voice for research and a voice for life. Providing participant communication supports. Commentary on Dee-Price - 2020 - Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Making space for the participant with complex communication (access) needs in social work research - 2020 - Qualitative Social Work

Eye-gaze control technology for children, adolescents and adults with cerebral palsy with significant physical disability: Findings from a systematic review - 2017 - Developmental Neurorehabilitation