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People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Face Challenges with Employment, Health Disparities
In some respects, life has gotten much better for many Americans with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). But more than 7 million people in the U.S. with IDD are still facing substantial challenges, disability experts say.
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New Training has Loved Ones Helping Those Suffering from Aphasia
Just one month after giving birth, Ashley had two strokes. After being diagnosed with aphasia, she tries to find the right words.
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Foundations of Adaptive Yoga: Part 2
Building on "Foundations of Adaptive Yoga: Part 1," this class offers more variations for a continued challenge.
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Expansion of self-direction of Medicaid services during COVID-19 pandemic yields positive outcomes, but more research is needed
People who self-direct Medicaid services generally have more control over their daily lives.
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Inpatient Care
We treat several thousand inpatients with a wide variety of functional impairments, from the common to the most complex.
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Knee Osteoarthritis
Learn more about our projects and focus on assisting sports injury and biological markers for knee joint distress.
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Caleb Never Quits: A Teen’s Intensive Rehabilitation after Naegleria Fowleri (Brain-Eating Amoeba)
When Caleb Z. was 13 years old, he and his family set out early one Friday morning to swim at a beach near their Florida home. Though this was only the second time that they went to the beach as a family, it was a day that would forever change their lives — and especially Caleb’s.
Patient Story
Dr. Leora Cherney Honored with Inaugural Mentoring Award from Aphasia Access
At a recent ceremony in Boston, Leora Cherney, PhD, scientific chair, Robert R. McCormick Foundation Think + Speak Lab, became the very first recipient of the Sandra O. Glista Excellence in Mentoring Award. The honor was given by Aphasia Access, an organization that supports academics and healthcare professionals who work with patients with aphasia.
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Advanced Control Systems for Powered Prosthetic Legs
Robotic powered prostheses have a number of built-in mechanical sensors that can gather information about the position, angle, and force exerted by the prosthetic joints.
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Dr. Mitra Lavasani Earns Prestigious R01 Grant from NIH
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s Mitra Lavasani, PhD, the director of the Translational Cell Therapy Lab, will advance a novel approach that could help find if there a way to turn back the clock on aging.
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Expansion of self-direction of Medicaid services during COVID-19 pandemic yields positive outcomes, but more research is needed
When a person chooses to self-direct their Medicaid services they make decisions about and manage their own home and community-based services (HCBS) and supports.
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NYT: Cognitive Rehab: One Patient’s Painstaking Path Through Long Covid Therapy
Nearly two years into the pandemic, advances have been made in treating Covid itself, but long Covid — a constellation of lingering health problems that some patients experience — remains little understood.
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