RRTC: Home and Community-Based Services
RRTC on Home and Community-based Services
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Selected Publications
Service-Delivery Competencies in Home and Community-Based Services Needed to Achieve Person-Centered Planning and Practices: A Systematic Review
Home and community-based services (HCBS) assist people with disabilities and older adults to remain in their homes. Direct support professionals and care managers who facilitate the development of support plans need to employ person-centered approaches to ensure services are tailored to peoples' needs and preferences. The aims were to identify the key competencies needed for delivery of person-centered supports and examine the relationship between HCBS and its' outcomes in the United States. We…
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25 Years & Going Strong: Celebrating the Center for Aphasia Research & Treatment
For the past quarter century, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab's Center for Aphasia Research & Treatment has been a lifeline. Through clinical treatment, research, extensive programming and outreach,…
view all newsMeasuring Brain Activity of Patients With Aphasia During Therapy
Researchers at the Center for Aphasia Research & Treatment at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab hope to find new ways to personalize treatment and improve outcomes for people with aphasia — using a non-invasive neuroimaging technique to discover how the brain responds during therapy.
Aphasia Research SLPs Stacy Chrzastowski & Abby Jeppson Complete Northwestern Clinical Bioethics Scholars Program
Stacy Chrzastowski and Abby Jeppson — two research speech-language pathologists in the Center for Aphasia Research & Treatment — recently graduated from the Northwestern Clinical Bioethics Scholars Program.