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NSF Awards $5 Million to Dr. Brenna Argall-Led Project to Develop Power Wheelchair with Driver-Assist Technology
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator program recently announced a $5 million award to Project Drive, a multidisciplinary partnership that aims to bring the first active driving assistance system for power wheelchairs to the consumer market. The principal investigator of the NSF-funded project is Brenna Argall, PhD, research scientist and director, Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics Laboratory (argallab).
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Forest & Bluff Magazine Highlights Dolan Family’s Three-Decade Commitment to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
A recent article in Forest & Bluff, a magazine covering several Northshore communities, highlighted the Dolan family’s decades-long, multi-generational commitment to fundraising and leadership at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.
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2023 Awardee: Jeremy D Brown, PhD
Jeremy D Brown's Project: Assessing Haptic Sensory Impairment and its Impact on Motor Control Post-Stroke
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2023 Awardee: Brooke Dexheimer, PhD, OTD, OTR/L
Brooke Dexheimer's project: a novel method of quantifying lateralized fine motor impairment in Parkinson’s Disease
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2023 Awardee: Peter C. Fino, PhD
Peter C. Fino's Project: Quantifying head turns during daily living: establishing normative reference values and preliminary recovery trajectories after vestibular schwannoma resection using wearable sensors
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2023 Awardee: Kari Kretch PT, DPT, PhD
Kari Kretch's Project: Wearable technology for measuring everyday experience in infants with cerebral palsy
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2023 Awardee: Reza Sharif Razavian, PhD
Reza Sharif Razavian's Project: HAMSTER: A low-cost assessment and rehabilitation device for neuromuscular disorders
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2023 Awardee: Hakan Töreyin, PhD
Hakan Töreyin's project: Wearable diaphragmatic efficiency monitoring technologies towards in-home respiratory monitoring of people with cervical spinal cord injury
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Bill Aims to Raise the Asset Cap for Supplemental Security Income
This past fall, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) introduced a bill to reform the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.* SSI, managed by the Social Security Administration, provides supplemental income to more than 8 million people who are over the age of 65 or who have disabilities.
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Rosa Plasencia, Director, National Core Indicators – Aging & Disabilities at ADvancing States
Learn more about Plasencia whose experience with National Core Indicators has helped the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) Rehabilitation and Research Training Center (RRTC) on Home and Community-Based Services with the development of HCBS outcome measures.
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NIH Designates People with Disabilities a Health Disparities Population
On September 26, Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), designated people with disabilities as a ‘population with health disparities’ for research supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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2023 Impact Report
On behalf of everyone at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, we thank you for your support. We invite you to take a look at our FY23 Impact Report below.
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