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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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Employment Resources for People with Physical Disabilities
Welcome to your guide to employment resources for people with physical disabilities!
Research Project
COMPLETE: Targeted Muscle Reinnervation: A Neural Interface for Artificial Limbs
During TMSKR nerves in an amputee’s residual arm are transferred to target muscles that no longer perform a useful function because of the amputation.
Research Project
How a Unique Ultrasound Course Trains Medical Residents
Science — one of the world’s top academic journals, with a 144-year legacy of publishing breakthrough research — recently published a study whose authors included Shirley Ryan AbilityLab's Colin Franz, MD, PhD, physician-scientist. The ultrasound techniques that Dr. Franz utilized in this study were the same ones that he learned a decade ago during his residency at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in the Musculoskeletal (MSK) Ultrasound Course.
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Transition planning for young adults with disabilities complicated by COVID-19
For young people with disabilities, the passage into adulthood comes with a marker that is even more fraught than these existential questions: aging out of youth supports and services and into adult services, often with little to no guidance in the process.
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Transition planning for young adults with disabilities complicated by COVID-19
For young people with disabilities, the passage into adulthood comes with a marker that is even more fraught than these existential questions: aging out of youth supports and services and into adult services, often with little to no guidance in the process.
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Gadi Revivo, DO
Section Chief, Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine
Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Evelyn’s Story: A Moving Milestone on Anniversary of Spinal Cord Injury
Evelyn and her young daughter, Julia, were rear-ended by a driver traveling at high speed. After 10 days in an acute-care hospital, Evelyn transferred to Shirley Ryan AbilityLab for inpatient care and rehabilitation.
Patient Story
Schroth Method for Scoliosis: A Path to Better Spinal Health
One option for the treatment of scoliosis is the Schroth method, an exercise-based physical therapy approach. This method is available on an outpatient basis at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab for patients who have scoliosis, as well as kyphosis — another spinal condition marked by an excessive rounding of the upper back.
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Expansion of self-direction of Medicaid services during COVID-19 pandemic yields positive outcomes, but more research is needed
People who self-direct Medicaid services generally have more control over their daily lives.
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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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Expansion of self-direction of Medicaid services during COVID-19 pandemic yields positive outcomes, but more research is needed
When a person chooses to self-direct their Medicaid services they make decisions about and manage their own home and community-based services (HCBS) and supports.
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