Dr Betty-Jean (B-J) Dee-Price

Dr Betty-Jean (B-J) Dee-Price is a disability health researcher with expertise in communication disability, patient and clinician communication self-efficacy, augmentative and alternative communication, social identity and disability, mental health and disability and inclusive research methodologies. B-J is located with the Justice and Society Unit of the University of South Australia and is the chief researcher on a project titled 'Talking Scrubs' with Phase 3 funding provided by a UniSA Slingshot grant. B-J is also a senior researcher with Lived Experience Australia working on mental health projects.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

Dee-Price, B. J., Fairweather, A. K., Arthurson, K., & Longfellow, L. (2024). Identity, mental health, and ableism in Australian schools: findings from a multi-stakeholder survey. Disability & Society, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2024.2438126

Ostojic, K., Karem, I., Dee-Price, B., Paget, S. P., Berg, A., Burnett, H., Scott, T. R., Strnadová, I., & Woolfenden, S. R. (2024). Development of a new social prescribing intervention for families of children with cerebral palsy. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. https://doi.org/10.1111/dmcn.16039

Ostojic, K., Karem, I., Paget, S. P., Berg, A., Dee-Price, B. J., Lingam, R., Dale, R. C., Eapen, V., Woolfenden, S., & EPIC-CP Group (2024). Social determinants of health for children with cerebral palsy and their families. Developmental medicine and child neurology, 66(1), 32–40. https://doi.org/10.1111/dmcn.15640sing Communication Assistants in Qualitative Health Research - 2023 - Qualitative Health Research 

Ostojic K, Paget S, Martin T, et al., 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 studyBMJ Open 2023;13:e066346. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066346

Dee-Price B-JM. Using Communication Assistants in Qualitative Health Research. Qualitative Health Research. 2023;33(8-9):663-672. doi:10.1177/10497323231169495

Ostojic, K., Paget, S., Martin, T., Dee-Price, B. J., McIntyre, S., Smithers Sheedy, H., Mimmo, L., Burnett, H., Scott, T., Berg, A., Masi, A., Scarcella, M., Calderan, J., Azmatullah, S., Mohamed, M., Woodbury, M., Wilkinson, A., Zwi, K., Dale, R., Eapen, V., … EPIC-CP Group (2023). 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. BMJ open, 13(4), e066346. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-066346

Ostojic, K., Karem, I., Paget, S., Mimmo, L., Berg, A., … Scott, T. (2024). A qualitative study investigating the experiences of unmet social needs for children with cerebral palsy and their families: perspectives of parents and clinicians. Disability and Rehabilitation, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2024.2391557

Dee-Price, B. (2022). Recruiting Participants with Complex Communication Access Needs in Social Science Research: Issues of Capacity and Consent. Issues in Social Science, 10(1), 14. https://doi.org/10.5296/iss.v10i1.20019

Dee-Price, B.-J. M. (2021). Do the ends justify the means? Disability research in social isolation. Qualitative Social Work, 20(1-2), 156-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325020973443

Dee-Price, B. J. M., Hallahan, L., Nelson Bryen, D., & Watson, J. M. (2020). Every voice counts: exploring communication accessible research methods. Disability & Society, 36(2), 240–264. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2020.1715924

Dee-Price, B. J. M. (2020). From conversation starters in the front yard to talking to God: the sensory ethnography of communication access. Disability and Rehabilitation, 43(22), 3264–3270. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2020.1729255

Dee-Price, B. J. M. (2020). Social researchers and participants with intellectual disabilities and complex communication (access) needs. Whose capacity? Whose competence? Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 7(2), 132–143. https://doi.org/10.1080/23297018.2020.1788418

Dee-Price, B. J. M. (2020). Response to Johnson (2020), 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, 7(2), 152–153. https://doi.org/10.1080/23297018.2020.1807397

Dee-Price, B.-J. (2020). Making space for the participant with complex communication (access) needs in social work research. Qualitative Social Work, 19(5-6), 827-844. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325019856080

Karlsson, P., Allsop, A., Dee-Price, B. J., & Wallen, M. (2018). Eye-gaze control technology for children, adolescents and adults with cerebral palsy with significant physical disability: Findings from a systematic review. Developmental neurorehabilitation, 21(8), 497–505. https://doi.org/10.1080/17518423.2017.1362057