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Dr Brett Furlonger

Job title: Lecturer in Counselling
Qualifications:  PhD(Melb), MA(Hons), BA(Auck), DipEdPsych, AdvDipTchg, Cert EoD
 
Location:Clayton, building 5, room G12
Phone:+61 3 990 59173
 
Email:
Brett.Furlonger@education.monash.edu.au
Fax:  +61 3 9905 5127

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Teaching commitment

Research Interests

1.Counselling

2.Reading skills of sign-dominant profoundly deaf adults

3.Psychological impact of deafness on functioning

4.Using video-modelling to promote symbolic play in young children with autism

5.Auditory processing and attentional disorders

Professional Associations

  • Affiliate member of Association for Behavior Analysis International

Community Service

  • Community Presentations
  • 2001 - Invited speaker - Interactive assessment - Reality and Potential in children with intellectual and sensory impiarments. Department of Learning and Educational Development, The University of Melbourne, August 6.
  • 2000 - Invited speaker - Communication disorders and assessment - Exceptionality, assessemnt and intervention seminar. The University of Melbourne, August 22.
  • 2000 - Invited speaker - Narrative therapy with special populations (hearing impaired). Educational Psychology Seminar Series, Department of Learning and Educational Development, The University of Melbourne, March 17.
  • 1997 - Invited Speaker - A qualitative analysis of teacher attitudes to deaf children in regular classrooms. Psychologists in Deaf Education, Victorian College of the Deaf, November, 1997.
  • 1996 - Invited speaker - the management of secondary syndromes for children who are deaf or hearing impaired. Psychologists in Deaf Education. Monnington Centre, Kew, November.
  • 1996 - Invited Speaker- Evaluating survey questionnaire forms using factor analysis. Nursing-Health Science Department. Victoria University of Technlogy, St Albans, September.
  • 1995 - Invited Speaker - Establishing links between assessment, programming and evaluation. Itinerant Teacher of the Deaf Course, Auckland, March.
  • 1994 - Invited speaker - Language disorders and a child's perspective of the world. Parents of Children with Language Disorders, Takapuna Primary School, August.
  • Community Publications
  • 2001 - Book review - Furlonger, B. E., Byrnes, L., & Rickards, F.W. A review of good practice in deaf education. S. Powers, S. Gregory, W. Lynas, McCraken, L. Watson, A. Boulton & D. Harris. Deafness and Education International.
  • 1999 - Massa, D., & Furlonger, B. E. The vocational status of young deaf and hearing impaired clients. Access: The National Issues Journal for People with a Disability,1, 2, 23-26.
  • 1999 - Furlonger, B. E., & Massa, D. Reshaping the future of work: Peters story. Communicate: Journal of the National Foundation for the Deaf, 8, 3, 12-13.
  • 1998 - Furlonger, B. E., & Massa, D. (1998). Reading, bilingualism and deafness. Communicate: Journal of the National Foundation for the Deaf, 8, 2, 5-9
  • 1995 - Furlonger, B. E. The Fourth Asia Pacific Congress on Deafness. Communicate: Journal of the National Foundation for the Deaf, 5, 2, 18-19.
  • 1998 - Furlonger, B. E. (1998). Listening in awe to the figures on deafness, Nexus, 8(21), p 6.
  • 1996 - Furlonger, B. E. Finding cost-effective sustainable solutions to the problems of hearing impairment. Nexus, 6(17), p4.
  • 1995 - Furlonger, B. Unwanted Gifts. Kommunicator, 24, p3
  • 1995 - Furlonger, B. The Cyclone Inside. Kommunicator, 23, p5.
  • 1995 - Furlonger, B. The Hazards of Secrets. Kommunicator, 22, p6.
  • 1994 - Furlonger, B. Children and Sleep. Kommunicator, 21, p7.

Supervision

1. Investigating the effects of supervision on the development of positive coping style and management of vicarious traumatisation among telephone and online counsellors

2. Assisting university students cope: A comparison of student life stress and coping strategies between on-campus, off-campus and offshore post-graduate counselling students.

3. Teaching Symbolic Play to a Child with Autism using video and video self-modelling

4. Supporting hearing-impaired children within inclusive settings: The role of educational assistants

5. Parent coping strategies and the social-emotional development of hearing impaired children

6. An assessment of the service requirements of children with special needs

7. The new mothers social support: A qualitative analysis of the changing

dynamics of the social network in a time of adjustment

8. Predicting dangerousness with the Victorian Risk/Needs Assessment Tool: A validation study.

9. Self efficacy and decisional balance as predictors of self change in smoking cessation

10. Investigating the relationship between job satisfaction and perceptions of leadership behaviour of aviation firefighters in Victoria and NSW

11. An investigation of the links between children learning English-as-a

second-language and disruptive classroom behaviour

12. Psychosocial differences between rapists, paedophiles and non-violent offenders undergoing parole supervision in the state of Victoria

13. Teachers' perceptions of the behavioural differences between hearing impaired and hearing students in mainstream classes.

14. Guidelines for the selection of books for storytelling with deaf students

15. The impact of acquired deafness on a family

16. An evaluation of risk management plans for the outdoor education experience of deaf and hearing impaired students.

17. The consultative process during the implementation of a bilingual program in a school for the deaf: Teacher evaluations of the difficulties.

18. The effects of a residential school for the deaf on hearing-impaired teenagers.

Publications

Furlonger, B. E., & Rickards, F. W. (submitted) Understanding the diverse literacy needs of profoundly deaf sign-dominant adults in Australia. Reading Psychology.

Sharma, U., Moore, D. M., Furlonger, B. E., Smyth King, B., Kaye, L., & Constantinou, O. (In Press). Forming effective partnerships to facilitate inclusion of students with vision impairments: Perceptions of a regular classroom teacher and an itinerant teacher. British Journal of Vision Impairment.

Furlonger, B. E., Sharma, U., Moore, D. W., & Smyth King, B. (2009). A new approach to training teachers to meet the diverse learning needs of deaf children within inclusive settings in Australia. International Journal of Inclusive Education. 1-20, iFirst Article, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13603110802504549

Furlonger, B. E., Cook, S. A., & Mune, D. (2006). Knowing where to start: A home training program in sign language development for parents of deaf and hard of hearing infants. Telstra Foundation, DVD, (30 mins).

Furlonger, B. E., Cook, S. A., & Mune D. (2005). Knowing where to start: A home training program in spoken language development for parents of deaf and hard of hearing infants. Telstra Foundation, DVD, (28 mins).

Campbell, C., Furlonger, B. E., & Cook, S. A. (2004). Supporting hearing-impaired children within inclusive settings: The role of educational assistants, Australian. Journal of Education of the Deaf, 10, 11-17.

Marino, E., Furlonger, B. E., & Frydenberg, E. (2003). Social-emotional development, parental coping strategies and the language functioning of hearing-impaired children. Australian Journal of Education of the Deaf, 9, 11-18.

Walker, L., Furlonger, B. E., Jeanes, R. C. & Rickards, F. W. (2001). Metacognitive text comprehension strategy use by deaf adolescents. Australian Journal of Education of the Deaf, 7, 4-15.

Kent, B., Furlonger, B. E., Goodrick, D. A, (2001). Toward an understanding of acquired hearing loss in a family: Narrative play format as a new voice in qualitative methodology: The Qualitative Report, 6(4), http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR6-4/furlonger.html.

Furlonger, B. E., Russell, R., & Gardner, N. (2001). Sharing Books with Young Deaf Children: Learning from Deaf Storytellers. Australian Journal of Education of the Deaf , 7, 16-20.

Bartolo, K. B. & Furlonger, B. E. (2000). Leadership and job satisfaction among aviation firefighters in Australia. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 15, 1, 87-93.

Moore, M. S., Kennedy, G., Furlonger, B., & Evers, K. (1999). Sex, sex roles, and romantic attitudes: Finding the balance. Current Research in Social Psychology, 2: 15-22, http//www.uiowa.edu/~grpproc

Furlonger, B. E. (1999). Narrative therapy and children with hearing impairments. American Annals of the Deaf, 144, 4, 325-333.

Furlonger, B. E. (1998). An investigation of the career development of high school adolescents with hearing impairments in New Zealand. American Annals of the Deaf, 143, 268-277.

Furlonger, B. E. (1998). Issues involved in the identification and management of attention deficit disorder in a deaf adolescent. Deafness and Education, 22, 3, 1-7.

Furlonger, B. E., Lyon, D., McCloy, F., Moore, D. & Stewart, B. (1991). Hatching Dinosaur Eggs Cooperatively. Computers in New Zealand Schools, 3, 1, 21-24