Rate My Professor Laura Hemmings

Hemmings' research focuses on developmental paediatrics, specifically interventions and long-term outcomes for children born extremely preterm or extremely low birthweight, as well as screening and assessment of mild motor delays in preschool children. Her work includes the development and validation of the Targeted Motor Control Screening Tool, demonstrated valid for 4-year-old children. Key publications encompass 'The Targeted Motor Control Screening Tool Is Valid for 4-Year-Old Children' (Physical Therapy, 2024), 'Clinimetrics: Neurosensory Motor Developmental Assessment' (Journal of Physiotherapy, 2024), 'Development, feasibility, and acceptability of a screening resource to assess mild motor delay in 4-year-old children: a mixed methods study' (Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2025), 'An intervention model for children with mild developmental delay using multi-stakeholder co-design study and Australia-wide survey' (Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2026), 'The effect of high-fidelity simulation-based learning in acute cardiorespiratory physical therapy: a mixed-methods systematic review' (Advances in Simulation, 2021), and 'Randomised clinical trial of group-based physiotherapy in residential aged care' (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2020). Her contributions advance early intervention strategies and physiotherapy practices for vulnerable paediatric populations, while her teaching in units such as PHTY8100 Applied Sciences for Physiotherapy A and PHTY8204 Health and Wellbeing Across Lifespan A supports the next generation of clinicians.