Andrea Baraldi Cunha, PT, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy
Director, Play Lab
Physical Therapist, Department of Physical Therapy
Andrea Baraldi Cunha, PT, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute. Her life is dedicated to pediatric physical therapy, which she has experience in clinical teaching, as a researcher and a clinician, having worked in pediatric clinics, schools and hippotherapy centers. Baraldi Cunha is passionate about designing and assessing play interventions to advance development for infants and children with or at risk for motor delays. She is also interested in how caregiver practices can improve development, and to test ad design low-cost technologies using a user-centered design approach.
Information
- Postdoctoral Research: Move 2 Learn Innovation Lab, University of Delaware.
- PhD: Physical therapy, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil, 2014.
- MS: Physical therapy, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil, 2011.
- BS: Physical therapy, Methodist University of Piracicaba, Brazil, 2005.
Specialty Certifications
- Active teaching and learning methodologies.
- Hippotherapy, manual therapy and neurodevelopmental treatment.
- Pediatric rehabilitation.
Baraldi Cunha provides patient care services in the Department of Physical Therapy at Munroe-Meyer Institute.
- Clinic Locations: Munroe-Meyer Institute.
Play Lab at the Munroe-Meyer Institute.
- Pediatric physical therapy.
- Practice-based evidence.
- Research methods and basic statistics.
- To investigate of the role of perceptual-motor experiences in typically developing infants and infants at risk for motor delays and relationship with cognitive outcomes.
- To evaluate cultural aspects of parental practices and parent-child-interactions in early infancy.
- To design and assess early, effective and play interventions and rehabilitation devices to advance development for infants and children with or at risk for motor delays.
- Toby Long Award the best paper published, “A Novel Means-End Problem-Solving Assessment Tool for Early Intervention: Evaluation of Validity, Reliability, and Sensitivity”, in Pediatric Physical Therapy journal in 2021.
- Scholarship for Research Studies abroad – PhD, Sao Paulo Foundation for Research Support (FAPESP), Brazil (Award #: 2012/05684-2).
- PhD Fellowship award, FAPESP, Brazil (Award #: 2011/01543-2).
- Master Fellowship award, FAPESP, Brazil (Award #: 2009/13631-3).
- Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy Pediatrics Partners Program.
- American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.
- International Motor Development Research Consortium.
- International Society for Infant Studies.
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Munroe-Meyer Institute
985450 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-5450
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