About the Author

Dr Vickie Meade is a board-certified clinical specialist in paediatric physical therapy, with a Master of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health. Dr Meade is currently active in research on early screening and innovative service delivery models for infants, young children and their families. Dr Meade has been teaching courses related to early screening and intervention for over twenty years, as Adjunct Professor in the Masters of Physical Therapy Program at St. Catherine University, Minnesota (St. Paul Campus), at Seattle Pacific University and internationally.

Janette Heath Osborne is a physiotherapist and has had over twenty-five years of clinical involvement with infants and their families. She became Clinical Supervisor then lecturer at the School of Physiotherapy, University of Sydney, and was chief physiotherapist at the Crown Street Women's Hospital, Sydney where she worked in the intensive care unit and started the growth and development follow-up clinic, with Vickie Meade and a multidisciplinary team. She is currently active in continuing her interests in mothers and babies working with early childhood nurse specialists in Sydney.