Dr Victoria McQuillan's Outputs (7)

Activities of Daily Living and Self-Care as Human Occupation (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter highlights conventional understandings of self-care activities of daily living within occupational therapy and occupational science. Activities of daily living (ADL) are deemed necessary for health and are performed routinely. This chapt... Read More about Activities of Daily Living and Self-Care as Human Occupation.

Harnessing real-life experiences: the development of guidelines to communicate research findings on Developmental Coordination Disorder/dyspraxia (2024)
Journal Article

Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), also known as dyspraxia, affects 5–15% of school-aged children (Hamilton and Sutton, Am Fam Physician 66:1435, 2002) and significantly impacts a child’s ability to learn motor skills and perform everyday act... Read More about Harnessing real-life experiences: the development of guidelines to communicate research findings on Developmental Coordination Disorder/dyspraxia.

Self-perception and participation in physical activity in children with and without DCD: A longitudinal study (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Physical activity (PA) is important for health and wellbeing, but most children do not participate enough in PA, a potential public health disaster. Children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) participate in less PA than typically develo... Read More about Self-perception and participation in physical activity in children with and without DCD: A longitudinal study.

A comparison of characteristics, developmental disorders and motor progression between children with and without developmental coordination disorder (2021)
Journal Article
McQuillan, V., Swanwick, R., Chambers, M., Schluter, D., & Sugden, D. (2021). A comparison of characteristics, developmental disorders and motor progression between children with and without developmental coordination disorder. Human Movement Science, 78, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.humov.2021.102823

Background and aim
Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) have difficulty in the development of motor coordination and with learning new motor skills. Studies demonstrate that children with DCD differ in terms of the nature and seve... Read More about A comparison of characteristics, developmental disorders and motor progression between children with and without developmental coordination disorder.

Abstracts: 11th International Conference on Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD11) Developmental Coordination Disorder and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Focus on Comorbidity (2015)
Journal Article
McQuillan, V. (2015). Abstracts: 11th International Conference on Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD11) Developmental Coordination Disorder and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Focus on Comorbidity. Journal of Comorbidity, 5(2), https://doi.org/10.15256/joc.2015.5.52

Social participation in occupational contexts, in schools, clinics and communities (2012)
Journal Article
McQuillan, V. (2012). Social participation in occupational contexts, in schools, clinics and communities. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 75(10), https://doi.org/10.1177/030802261207501006

Book Review

Promoting academic writing/referencing skills: outcome of an undergraduate e-learning pilot project (2007)
Journal Article
Brown, C., Dickson, R., Humpheys, A., McQuillan, V., & Smears, E. (2007). Promoting academic writing/referencing skills: outcome of an undergraduate e-learning pilot project. British Journal of Educational Technology, 39(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00735.x

Future health care professionals will require self-directed learning skills. e-Learning is a tool to assist in this process and therefore there is a need to develop the capacity and readiness to utilise e-learning within educational programmes. The a... Read More about Promoting academic writing/referencing skills: outcome of an undergraduate e-learning pilot project.