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Ask the Expert: Edie Babbitt, PhD, on Aphasia
Dr. Babbitt provides insight about different types of aphasia, how families and caretakers can support people with aphasia, and more.
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Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Patients Featured in CBS Chicago Segment About Bedside Music Performances
CBS News Chicago recently featured two Shirley Ryan AbilityLab patients in a segment about Musicians on Call — a volunteer organization that regularly visits the organization’s flagship hospital in Chicago, going room to room to serenade patients.
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MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery
Area of Assessment
Attention & Working MemoryCognition
Executive Functioning
Processing Speed
Reasoning/Problem Solving
Time
hoursAssessment Type
Performance Measurecost
$1275.00Rehabilitation Measure
Customize How To Control Robot Movements
Shirley Ryan Ability Lab is conducting a research study that will investigate a new approach for how to control robots.
Age Range
18+
Clinical Trial
Nick Formanski: CROR Senior Project Coordinator, Peer Mentor … and Magnuson Founder’s Award Finalist
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Denise’s Story: Slowing Parkinson’s Disease Through Exercise
Family comes first for 60-year-old Denise C. With her husband, five children, three grandchildren and another grandchild on the way, Denise has devoted her life to raising her kids and building strong ties and unity.
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Dr. Prakash Jayabalan Receives Research Grant from Foundation for PM&R
Prakash Jayabalan, MD, PhD, attending physician and clinician-scientist at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, recently was honored with the 2019 Scott F. Nadler PASSOR Musculoskeletal Research Grant from the Foundation for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
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Episode 11: Developing and Testing Person-Centered HCBS Outcome Measures
On this episode of INside the OUTcomes: A Rehabilitation Research Podcast, our guests are Bridgette Schram, PhD, project manager on the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Home and Community-Based Services at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, and Sara Karon, PhD, co-principal investigator on the project and a senior health policy analyst at RTI International.
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Celebrating Recreation Therapy Month at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Recreation therapists and sports coordinators at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab are part of the Therapeutic Recreation (T-Rec) team, who use physical activity-based interventions to address the health, well-being, and physical and psychological needs of patients. In the process, they promote individuals’ functioning and independence in life activities.
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People with significant day-to-day variation in cognition after a stroke have greater problems with daily activities and socializing
Researchers led by Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) Assistant Director, Alex Wong, PhD and former CROR post-doc, Elizabeth Munsell, PhD, OT, have published new findings in Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation.
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