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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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Parkinson’s disease: Intervening Early Concerning Employment (PIECE)
We are conducting an study to learn how people with Parkinson’s disease address employment challenges and what resources they use to address these challenges.
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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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Illinois Assistive Technology Program
In Illinois, the Illinois Assistive Technology Program (IATP) provides access to assistive technology devices and services to people with disabilities throughout the state.
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New Analysis Finds Smaller Labor Market Gains for Black Americans with Disabilities Since the Pandemic
The news about employment opportunities for people with disabilities has been almost uniformly good since the Covid-19 pandemic ended.
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Meet Greg Bedan
Bedan, 62, sustained a neck injury while playing football in his sophomore year in high school in Greenwood, Indiana. He was the captain of the team and aspired to play at Notre Dame, like his father. At 15 years old, he was paralyzed below his arms.
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2024 Pediatric Summer Camps
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab is offering several pediatric summer camps. They will have fun activities and each will have an area of focus: speech, feeding, gait and upper extremity function.
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People with Disabilities Make Employment Gains During Pandemic but Will They Last?
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to roil the U.S. labor market in 2021, but one group of workers has likely benefitted from the unprecedented disruption: people with disabilities.
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Introducing Lacey Lyons: HCBS Quality Matters Newsletter Writer
Lyons is a freelance writer, copy editor, interviewer and book reviewer for Southern Review of Books, and an educator in writing and disability studies at Belmont University.
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Early Study Feedback Suggests Virtual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy May Help Some People Working with Chronic Pain
Early results from a study at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research suggests that cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) delivered virtually helps people with disabilities manage their chronic pain.
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Survey Finds Need for Improved Way to Measure Quality of Orthotics Care
To get a better handle on the situation, researchers at the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab surveyed orthotists and physical therapists around the country on their perspectives on quality-of-care indicators for people who use custom ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs).
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Introducing Lacey Lyons: HCBS Quality Matters Newsletter Writer
The RRTC on Home and Community-Based Services at CROR would like to introduce our newsletter readers to Lacey Lyons, our new writer for the HCBS Quality Matters Newsletter. Read to learn more about Lacey and her journey into disability-focused writing, journalism, and education.
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