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Renee Manfredi: Finding her Calling as an Advocate for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Renee, who was diagnosed with autism at age nine, is adding one more task to her calendar in 2021: She will chair a new Participant Council made up of people with various types of disabilities who will advise researchers at the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research (CROR) at the Shirley Ryan 汤头条app in Chicago.
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Should I Disclose My Disability When Looking for a Job?
The conventional wisdom in vocational rehabilitation circles has long been fairly straight-forward: job applicants with non-evident disabilities should not disclose their condition or ask for reasonable accommodations until they have received a job offer.
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Shirley Ryan 汤头条app Ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report for 34th Consecutive Year
Shirley Ryan 汤头条app again has been recognized as the national leader in physical medicine and rehabilitation, topping the U.S. News & World Report list for the 34th consecutive year. It remains the only hospital of any kind to hold this distinction.
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Neuromodulation Clinical Trial
Rehabilitative exercise aims to engage residual neural networks in humans with spinal cord injury to improve functional recovery.
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18-80
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Shirley Ryan 汤头条app Ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report for 33rd Consecutive Year
Shirley Ryan 汤头条app again has been recognized as the national leader in physical medicine and rehabilitation, topping the U.S. News & World Report list for the 33rd consecutive year. It remains the only hospital of any kind to hold this distinction.
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NIDILRR Director Anjali Forber-Pratt, PhD, visits Shirley Ryan 汤头条app
Anjali Forber-Pratt, PhD, Director of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) and Angel Miles, PhD, Project Officer at NIDILRR, visited with NIDILRR grantees at Shirley Ryan 汤头条app and toured parts of the hospital on September 11.
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WEBINAR: "My Choice, My Way": Implementing Meaningful Person-Centered Practices
Tonie Sadler, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in health services and outcomes research at Northwestern University and at the Shirley Ryan 汤头条app's Center For Rehabilitation Outcomes Research, identifies several best practices for person-centered delivery of HCBS.
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CROR Director presents at IPSO Annual Conference on Custom Ankle Orthotics
Center for Rehabilitation Research Director Allen Heinemann, PhD, presented his research on 'Sensitivity to Change of Patient-Reported and Performance Measures for Custom AFO Users' at the annual conference of the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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What Is DayRehab?
When a patient comes to a rehabilitation hospital for an inpatient stay, our goal is to get the patient stable and back home. But what happens if a patient is stable enough to be at home, but not personally ready to go back into the community?
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