I have been an elected Visiting Professor in Oxford as well as my major appointment at UCL. ![]() With my colleague Oliver Braddick, I established and directed Visual Development Units, supported by the UK Medical Research Council, in Cambridge, UCL, and Oxford. My current collaborations in work on neurodevelopmental disorders are with groups in the Oxford Dept of Paediatrics (Dolphin study of dietary supplementation for infants at risk of cerebral palsy), the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, Rome, Brescia, and on typical brain development through MRI, with the University of California, San Diego. My recent work has focussed on these areas of visuocognitive function, including the development and application of the Early Childhood Attention Battery (“ECAB”) to analyse the components of attention in children aged 3-6 years or mental age equivalent. Many of these problems can be seen in terms of the concept, which I introduced, of ‘dorsal stream vulnerability’ - the specific vulnerability in development of the cortical processing stream which underpins motion processing, visuomotor control, and many aspects of visual attention. I have applied this work on the milestones of typical development to the analysis of developmental problems, both genetic (for example in Williams Syndrome), perinatal brain injury and premature birth, and developmental ophthalmic disorders. This has included pioneering research on infant and child contrast sensitivity, binocular vision, motion and orientation sensitivity, focussing and refraction, global form and motion processing and attention. Together these programs, which include RAFT, HomeBASE, supportive housing for teen parents and survivors of domestic violence, the Housing Choice Voucher Program, Fair Housing Education, financial and first-time homebuyer education, 209 units of emergency housing for families, and workforce development programs, provide service to over 65,000 men, women, and children each year.My research has focussed on the development, from the newborn period through childhood, of vision, visual cognition, and their underlying brain mechanisms. She leads and directs Way Finders’ Housing Center Division, which is comprised of Housing Support Services, Rental Assistance, and Housing Education Services. In her role as Chief Program Officer, Janette continues to lead our region in providing critically needed services to families and individuals. Van Wart Award from the Human Service Forum. Janette is a recognized leader at the state and local levels and is the recipient of the 2019 Robert J. Since 2012, Janette has been fearless and strategic in her advocacy to expand Way Finders’ services for homeless families, teen parents, and survivors of domestic violence as well as making herself available, on the ground, to help families through traumatic times in their lives. For more than 20 years, Janette’s career and commitment to “doing what is right” has included developing and directing supportive housing programs for teen mothers and survivors of sexual assault, and managing, overseeing, and ultimately leading Way Finders’ supportive housing and emergency shelter programs. The motivation for Janette’s career in human services is “¡Sí se puede!” coupled with her fervent belief that people deserve to live with dignity and to be safe, and that they should have equitable opportunities for social and economic well-being and good health.
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