CROR Outcomes, HCBS Quality Matters, MRSCICS Matters
CROR Outcomes is a quarterly newsletter featuring research updates on our projects at our RRTC on Employment and Disability.
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Pamela Capraro: A Career of Helping People with Disabilities Return to Work
Pamela Capraro and her husband were trying to find better care for their nine-year-old daughter in the late 1980s when they brought her to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) for an appointment.
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Surveys Seek to Identify Job Accommodations that Get People Back to Work
A new study at the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab intends to find out the best strategies for people with physical disabilities to ask their employers for flexible schedules or workplace changes.
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Natasha Kallish: Journalism and Psychology Set Her on a Path to Community-Based Research
Kallish is currently assisting with two CROR projects and handling its social media. By tweeting more frequently and tailoring the tweets to an audience of physicians, professors and academics, she has expanded the center’s Twitter following by 20%.
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Almost 30 years after the ADA, lack of job accommodations continues to be a barrier to employment
When the researchers looked at people who had received accommodations such as flexible scheduling, help with transportation or a personal care attendant/assistant, they found employment rates that were eight percentage points higher than those who had not.
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Chronic Pain Affects Many in the U.S. Workforce
Often defined as any pain lasting more than 12 weeks, chronic pain may be the result of an injury like a sprain, MS, spinal stenosis.
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Dawn Ehde: Helping people manage chronic pain
Dawn Ehde, PhD sees patients in neurological rehab programs and assesses how these conditions affect patient cognition, pain, mood, and well-being.
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New study will evaluate ‘virtual’ approaches to pain management
Managing chronic pain and getting back to normal activities requires changes in lifestyle, thinking and coping skills.
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