Dr Brett Furlonger - Researcher Profile

Biography

Brett Furlonger is a lecturer in counselling, psychology and special education. He has published widely and previously worked at the University of Melbourne as a Research Fellow and Post-Graduate Coordinator in Perth. Dr Furlonger received his Bachelors and Masters Degrees and Diploma of Educational Psychology from the University of Auckland and his Ph.D from the University of Melbourne. His Masters degree was awarded the prestigious Oticon Grant ($3,000) for Deafness Research.

He has been awarded three major educational scholarships ($15,000, $7,000 & $35,000) and a psychological study award ($112,000). He has been responsible for more than 30 publications and has served as a reviewer or editorial board member on such journals as The Teacher Educator, Australian Journal of Education of the Deaf, Journal of Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, Deafness and Education International and the Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist. One of his specialities is deaf education, a topic he became immersed in when he worked as a psychologist for the deaf following graduation. Since then he has trained teachers of the deaf in Auckland (New Zealand), Melbourne (Australia), and Perth (Western Australia). In 2004 he won a Telstra community grant ($33,000) to develop home training videos for parents of deaf children who wished to assist in the language development of their children.

Currently, Brett visits Singapore and Hong Kong up to four times a year where he teaches into a Masters in Counselling course, conducts research in the area of student life stress and coping and supervises students in the Singapore PhD program. 

Research & Supervision Interests

Counselling
Reading skills of sign-dominant profoundly deaf adults
Psychological impact of deafness on functioning
Using video-modelling to promote symbolic play in young children with autism
Auditory processing and attentional disorders

Qualifications

PHD

Institution: Melbourne University

Year awarded: 2008

MASTER OF ARTS (EDUCATION)

Institution: Auckland University

Year awarded: 1993

DIP ED IN PSYCH

Institution: Unknown

Year awarded: 1993

ADV. DIP. TCHG.

Institution: Unknown

Year awarded: 1990

BACHELOR OF ARTS

Institution: The University of Auckland

Year awarded: 1980

Publications

Journal Articles

Moore, D.W., Anderson, A., Treccase, F., Deppeler, J.M., Furlonger, B.E., Didden, R., 2013, A video-based package to teach a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder to write her name, Journal Of Developmental And Physical Disabilities [P], vol E, issue E, Springer New York LLC, New York NY United States, p. E.

Furlonger, B.E., Taylor, W., 2013, Supervision and the management of vicarious traumatisation among Australian telephone and online counsellors, Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling [E], vol E, Cambridge University Press, UK, pp. 1-13.

Taylor, W., Furlonger, B., 2011, A review of vicarious traumatisation and supervision among Australian telephone and online counsellors, Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling [P], vol 21, issue 2, Australian Academic Press Pty Ltd, Australia, pp. 225-235.

Furlonger, B., Rickards, F., 2011, Understanding the diverse literacy needs of profoundly deaf sign-dominant adults in Australia, Reading Psychology [E], vol 32, issue 5, Routledge, USA, pp. 459-494.

Furlonger, B.E., Sharma, U., Moore, D.W., Smyth King, B., 2010, A new approach to training teachers to meet the diverse learning needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing children within inclusive Australian schools, International Journal of Inclusive Education [P], vol 14, Routledge, UK, pp. 289-308.

Sharma, U., Moore, D.W., Furlonger, B.E., King, B.S., Kaye, L., Constantino, O., 2010, Forming effective partnerships to facilitate inclusion of students with vision impairments, British Journal of Visual Impairment [P], vol 28, issue 1, Sage Publications Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 57-67.

Campbell, C., Furlonger, B.E., Cook, S., 2004, Supporting hearing-impaired children within inclusive settings: The role of educational assistants, Australian Journal of Education of the Deaf, vol 10, issue 2004, Australian Association of Teachers of the Deaf, Australia, pp. 11-18.

Marino, E., Furlonger, B.E., Frydenberg, E., Poole, C., 2003, The relationship between parent coping strategies, social-emotional development and language functioning of hearing-impaired children, Australian Journal of Education of the Deaf, vol 9, Australian Association of Teachers of the Deaf, Australia, pp. 11-18.

Other

Furlonger, B.E., Cook, S., Mune, D., 2006, Knowing Where to Start. A Home Training Program in Sign Language Development for Parents of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Infants, All Round Vision, Perth WA Australia.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Attitudes to seeking professional counselling amoung Singaporeans.

Supervisors:

Furlonger, B (Joint), Jacobs, N (Joint-co).