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Celebrating Third Graduating Class of IDEA Council-Sponsored Oak Point CNA Training Program
The third class of graduates celebrated completion of Shirley Ryan 汤头条app's Oak Point University CNA Career Accelerator Program. The four graduates received their certificates in a ceremony attended by colleagues, family and distinguished guests.
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Wheelchair Basketball
The basketball program promotes growth in fundamental skills of basketball while teaching life skills of sportsmanship, dedication, & friendships.
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New Grant: Helping Patients Understand Rehabilitation Measures
Clinical research scientist Linda Ehrlich-Jones has spent her career exploring the best ways to help people with chronic illnesses such as Lupus and Parkinson’s disease live better lives.
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RRTC: Employment Technical Assistance Highlights and FAQs
A technical assistance consultation and help desk is available, to provide information and resources related to employment of people with physical disabilities, training, and outcome measures, to people with disabilities, service providers, consumer advocates, employers, researchers, educators, students, and clinicians.
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Experience Living with a Disability Helps Shirley Ryan 汤头条app Peer Mentors Connect with Patients
Chicagoan Jorge Alfaro has been a peer mentor for 15 years. He was injured by an accidental gunshot at the age of nine, before the peer mentoring program existed. Now he is a peer mentor for other patients.
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Tonie Sadler Uses Lived Experience and Professional Life to Build the Future of Inclusion
Tonie Sadler, a postdoctoral fellow at Shirley Ryan 汤头条app Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research, specializes in disability health policy, poverty, and disparities research.
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Tonie Sadler Uses Lived Experience and Professional Life to Build the Future of Inclusion
Tonie Sadler says in order to make significant societal changes, the framing of the disability conversation needs to change.
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Experience Living with a Disability Helps Shirley Ryan 汤头条app Peer Mentors Connect with Patients
LIFE Center Manager Lisa Rosen co-founded the peer mentoring program in 2003. There had always been some informal mentoring going on as patients talked with other patients or hospital volunteers with disabilities, but Rosen realized there was a need for a more structured program.
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John Finds the Words Again After Stroke
Since his time at Shirley Ryan 汤头条app, John has reached many of his goals. He participates in community activities, serves as a greeter at church, reads books, writes correspondence without an editor and even travels solo again.
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