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WTTW Profiles Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s “Pioneering” Center for Bionic Medicine
A recent story on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight program highlighted the next generation of bionic limbs being developed at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. The story featured Terry Karpowicz, a Chicago sculptor who has used prosthetics since losing his right leg in a motorcycle accident in 1975.
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Person-Centered Planning Central to Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities to Lead Full Lives
By the 1980s, some social scientists and disability advocates were making the case that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) should have more say in where and how they lived. Yet when social workers asked people with IDD those questions, the residents were often at a loss.
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Hiring People with Disabilities: the Chicago Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, RUSH University Medical Center and Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
On July 26, 2022, the 32nd anniversary of the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot opened the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) Career Center.
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Episode 27: Microlessons for Direct Service Professionals to Enhance Person-Centered Services
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Experience of Robotic Exoskeleton Use at Four Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems Centers
Publication that describes clinicians' experiences, evaluations, and training strategies using robotic exoskeletons in sci rehabilitation
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Motivational Interviewing and Person-Centered Services: Microlearning for HCBS Direct Service Professionals
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Announcing C-STAR, New NIH-Funded Infrastructure Center
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab has been awarded a prestigious P2C grant through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to establish the Center for Smart Use of Technologies to Assess Real-World Outcomes (C-STAR).
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ABC7: Chicago coronavirus survivor returns home after 10 weeks in 2 hospitals, rehab center
It took two and a half months, but Marian Steele fought COVID-19 and won, and now she's back home.
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Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System (MRSCICS)
The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab & Northwestern Memorial (known as the Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System) has been chosen by NIDILRR as one of 14 SCI Model System Centers.
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Direct Support Professionals: Complete Short, Online "Microlessons" on Motivational Interviewing and Person-Centered Services
Age Range
18+
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HANDS: A Multi-Center Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Intermittent Hypoxia Therapy in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
A study to investigate the effectiveness of daily acute intermittent hypoxia therapy (dAIH), coupled with a massed practice intervention or the use of high repetition training.
Age Range
18-70
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