Four U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Stakeholder Dialogues and Listening Sessions on implementing the Community Living Initiative were held across the nation last year, and a summary report is now available. The Community Living Initiative expands opportunities for people with disabilities and older adults to live in their communities and achieve their… Read More »»
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RTC Research on Measuring Community Participation by People with Disabilities Now Available Online
June 1, 2011
Last fall the Research and Training Center on Measurement and Interdependence in Community Living (MICL) held the conference “Community Participation by People with Disabilities: How Do We Measure Up?” If you weren’t able to attend, you can now learn about the research that was presented through seven videos on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/RTCIL . Click… Read More »»
Rehabilitation Research & Training Center for Stroke Survivors (RRTC)
February 16, 2011
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, with funding from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research Format RRTC RRTC assists stroke survivors achieve independence in their home environment and be active in the community by providing research, training, and evaluation; areas examined include various interventions for both acute and chronic stroke management utilized in… Read More »»
Community Integration: Traumatic Brain Injury
February 16, 2011
Community Integration Questionnaire (CIQ) Properties webpage on the Center for Outcome Measurement in Brain Injury (COMBI) website COMBI is a project funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, coordinated by the Rehabilitation Research Center at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center Format Webpage The CIQ was developed to be a… Read More »»
Community Integration: Psychiatric Disabilities
February 16, 2011
“Community Integration: Supporting People in Getting What They Want” The University of Illinois at Chicago Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy, part of the University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Psychiatry Format Online course In this 6-module web based course, faculty of the Penn Collaborative on Community Integration of Individuals… Read More »»
Persons Aging with Hearing and Vision Loss (PAHVL)
February 16, 2011
A consortium entitled “Disability & Rehabilitation Research Project (DRRP) on Persons Aging with Hearing & Vision Loss,” comprised of Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision (RRTC) of Mississippi State University, San Diego State University, and the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults, funded by the national Institute of… Read More »»
National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC)’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) Program Directory
February 16, 2011
National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research Format Searchable online database (Directory on webpage) The NIDRR Program Directory provides information on NIDRR programs which address a variety of problems encountered by people with disabilities. This website allows browsing on project titles and includes projects of Disability and Rehabilitation, Research Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers, Utilization, Rehabilitation… Read More »»
Community Integration: Civil Rights
February 16, 2011
Commitment to Community Integration Department of Health and Human Services Format Community Living Initiative June 22nd 2010 is the 11th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Olmstead v. L.C. decision, which maintained that the unjustified institutional isolation of people with disabilities is a type of unlawful discrimination under the Americans… Read More »»
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