#rehabilitation
As of March 31, 2022, Vision Loss Rehabilitation Ontario has moved from our Baseline Rd. office location. We look forward to welcoming you to a new space in the near future, and to continue providing rehabilitation services in the London and surrounding communities!
The new location will be updated on our website when secured.
The 6th World Disability and Rehabilitation Conference 2021 (WDRC 2021)
Welcome to the 6th World Disability and Rehabilitation Conference 2021 (WDRC 2021) which will be held from 11th– 12th November 2021 in Virtual Platform. We invite you to participate in the two-day conference, present your research work, and contribute to transforming the way the world engages with issues of disability and rehabilitation, publish with well-known publishers while advancing your career.
Call for Papers
Theme :"It takes a village" accessing Disability Services across the globe.
The World Disability and Rehabilitation Professionals’ Association (WDRPA) invites academics, activists, advocates, artists, practitioners, professionals, scholars, and students to submit their abstracts to the 6th World Disability and Rehabilitation Conference 2021 (WDRC 2021) under the theme “It Takes a Village:" Accessing Disability Services Across the Globe.” The conference theme asks three guiding questions for participants: What does it mean to create a habitable and accessible planet? What is your role in this endeavor? In what way does this goal entail collaboration across disciplines, ideologies, experiences, and world-views?
• Access
• Advocacy
• Assistive Technology
• Career and Employment Opportunities
• Counseling Services
• COVID-19 and Disability
• Development of Rehabilitation
• Diversity, Disability, and Public Health
• Gender and Disability
• Mental Health and Social Change
• Policy and Law
• Psychological Aspects…Counseling Services for PWDs and their Families
• Religion and Disability
• Strategies for People on the Autism Spectrum
• Wellness and Aging
Nov 10, 2021 at 10 PM to Nov 12, 2021 at 7 AM EST
This conference will focus on rehabilitation topics that include: employment, mental health, transition, deafblindness, orientation and mobility and assistive technology.
Nov 30, 2021 at 1 PM to Dec 1, 2021 at 2 PM EST
Department of Rehabilitation and Golden Sierra Job Training Agency partner to provide people with disabilities services resulting in employment!
Register now to meet with a specialist from DOR and learn about how you can get on track to your employment goals now!
Every 2nd Monday of the month from 1:00pm-2:00pm.
The event will be focusing on the commonalities in the areas of Cardiac, Pulmonary and Stroke Rehabilitation.
Our initial aim is to explore how combined/common approaches across the different disease areas might work and what benefits they could bring, particularly focussing on increasing opportunities for all patients to access services.
There is much emerging evidence that multi-morbidity focused rehabilitation can work well and, whilst we wholly acknowledge the need for disease specific rehabilitation to continue, we are hoping to bring together clinicians and interested parties to look at ways of bridging the gap for all patients, some of who may not have previously accessed any services for a variety of reasons.
As we look forward, it is also important that we are able to incorporate and help secure the positive changes you made during our COVID 19 response and not return to some of the difficulties we faced in our more ‘traditional’ way of working.
By moving forward with Let’s Talk Rehabilitation we very much hope to support you and our wider system to exploit some of the excellent innovations that have been put into services to date.
This webinar is free to members of the RCOT Specialist Section for Major Health Conditions. £5.00 + booking fee to members of RCOT, who are not a member of the Major Health Conditions Specialist Section. Tickets are limited to one per person.
Please be aware that you may be contacted to verify your specialist section membership.
This interactive webinar will be hosted by Emma Barclay, Head of Clinical Services at St. Anns Hospice, and will consider the following:
- What is palliative rehabilitation and how does it differ from rehabilitative palliative care?
- Role of Occupational Therapy in inspiring and leading change.
- Using the model for improvement in the hospice setting.
- Reflection on learning so far
- Opportunity to network and share ideas/challenges.
Speaker Bio
Emma has worked as an Occupational Therapist for 23 years in a range of health and social care settings. The last 6 years in palliative care at St Ann’s hospice as Occupational Therapist and Rehabilitation Team Leader before taking her current post, as Head of Clinical Services.
Emma also holds partner roles with HCPC in relation to CPD and fitness to practice.
Emma is passionate about high quality person centred rehabilitative palliative care, the value of Occupational Therapy and leading change as an Occupational Therapis
Join us for a complimentary virtual conference on mental health issues impacting today's workforce and virtual treatment best practices.
Agenda
11:00 am MST - Welcome and Introduction
11:05 am MST - Session 1: Dr. Charl Els (Post-traumatic Stress Injury - Diagnosis, Care, and Treatment)
- Trauma is ubiquitous. Following exposure to traumatic adult life events, a psychological injury / traumatic stress injury may ensue, which may take the form of a number of diagnosable psychiatric illnesses. This session will focus on the assessment, care, and treatment of traumatic psychological injury, including results of early interviews with national stakeholders about related experiences and challenges.
12:00 pm MST - Session 2: Dr. Doug Gross (Virtual Care in a Rehabilitation setting - Does it work?)
- The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in dramatic changes to health care to avoid spread of the novel coronavirus, including increased use of virtual care and telehealth. This presentation will review research on the effectiveness of virtual care generally and within workers’ compensation settings.
1:00 pm MST - Session 3: Dr. Rob Tanguay (Opioids and Function: Treating Distress vs Pain)
- Rehabilitation for Return to Work often include medications. Some of these medications, including opioids, may not have strong evidence and may be impacting function and pain outcomes. We will review the mechanisms of pain, emotion, and cognition and how medications may be helpful or harmful in supporting a positive return to work.
1:55 pm MST - Wrap-up
Who should attend?
Case managers, adjusters, healthcare professionals, disability management professionals, and employers.
For attendees from the same company, please ensure all team members register individually.
For more information, please contact Rene Huellstrung at [email protected]
This session will cover requirements in the ADA and ABA Accessibility Standards for medical care and long-term care facilities, including hospitals, rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, and other facilities. The presenters will review scoping and technical requirements for exam rooms, patient bedrooms, bathrooms, accessible routes, accessible parking, and other spaces and elements. They will also provide a brief overview on the Board’s voluntary Medical Diagnostic Equipment Standards.
Department of Rehabilitation and Golden Sierra Job Training Agency partner to provide people with disabilities services resulting in employment!
Register now to meet with a specialist from DOR and learn about how you can get on track to your employment goals now!
Every 2nd Monday of the month from 1:00pm-2:00pm.
You will receive a zoom link once registered.
This diploma is for health care, human resources, counselling, career development and social services professionals.
If you face the challenge of making accommodations for people with disabilities, if you need to understand the role of medical, psychological and ergonomic assessments, or if you are tasked with making decisions in the return-to-work process, this program is for you.
Learn more: SFU's Rehabilitation and Disability Management Diploma
SFU Rehabilitation and Disability Management Diploma Program
About this Event
This diploma is for health care, human resources, counselling, career development and social services professionals.
If you face the challenge of making accommodations for people with disabilities, if you need to understand the role of medical, psychological and ergonomic assessments, or if you are tasked with making decisions in the return-to-work process, this program is for you.
Learn more: SFU's Rehabilitation and Disability Management Diploma
Bionic limbs, robotic walking therapy, and brain stimulation are just some of the tools used to treat patients. Recent developments in the treatment of injuries and physical impairments have led to some amazing rehabilitation options for patients. Learn about the future of physical impairment medicine and rehabilitation with our panel of experts in prosthetics, spinal cord injury, and cognitive and communication disorders.
Join us at the brand-new Shirley Ryan AbilityLab facility downtown, tour their innovative labs, and enjoy a reception before the talk!
Speakers:
David Chen, MD
David Chen, MD, is the Medical Director of the Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation program at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. He is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation and the subspecialty of spinal cord medicine. Dr. Chen is also the co-project director for the Midwest Regional Spinal Cord Injury Care System (MRSCICS), a federal program of the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR).
Dr. Chen is an Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in medical textbooks on various subjects related to spinal cord medicine. He received his medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed his residency training in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago/Northwestern University Medical School.
Leora Cherney, PhD
Leora R. Cherney, PhD, is the Scientific Chair, Think and Speak Lab, at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) and Professor of both Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Communication Sciences & Disorders at Northwestern University. She has had more than 35 years of clinical experience working with adults with neurogenic communication disorders and is the founder and director of the AbilityLab’s Center for Aphasia Research and Treatment.
Dr. Cherney is board-certified in neurologic communication disorders by the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS) and a Fellow of both the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Illinois Speech-Language Hearing Association. She has co-authored four books and has over 90 publications in refereed journals, textbooks, and other periodicals. She regularly presents at workshops and conferences nationally and internationally. Dr. Cherney’s research interests, which have been federally funded for 20+ years, have focused on treatment approaches for aphasia and on attention and discourse problems in adults with cognitive-communication disorders.
Levi Hargrove, PhD
Dr. Hargrove is currently the Director of the Center for Bionic Medicine and of the Neural Engineering for Prosthetic and Orthotics Laboratory at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. He is also an Associate Professor in the Departments of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University.
A major goal of his research is to develop clinically realizable myoelectric control systems that can be made available to persons with limb loss in the near future. His research addresses all levels of amputation and has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine and multiple patents. Key projects include the development of advanced and adaptive control systems for prosthetic legs, improving control of robotic hand prostheses, and intramuscular EMG signal processing. In 2012, Dr. Hargrove co-founded Coapt, a company to transition advanced rehabilitation technologies from the research lab to patients’ homes.
Event Details
This program is open to the public. Reception and tours start at 5:30 PM, program starts at 6:30 PM. Please arrive in the lobby area and you will be directed. Due to volume and time constraints, tours are available to 60 people only. Please purchase the Program + Tour tickets before they sell out if you would like to take the tour.
Program Tickets are $5 and Program +Tour tickets are $10. Reception is included in both ticket types. All areas are wheelchair accessible.
Parking and Transportation
Parking is available on site at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab for $11/hour. Please bring in your parking tickets for validation.
For public transportation options, please use https://www.transitchicago.com/ to help plan your trip.
Notice: As a guest of Chicago Council on Science and Technology (C2ST), you agree to be photographed, videotaped, or filmed and grant C2ST permission to put the finished footage/photography to any uses that it may deem proper including marketing, advertising (print, radio, and television) and PR-related activities.
This job fair is FREE for employers and open to all types of business, including federal contractors. There will be both adult and student job seekers. This is an opportunity to connect with candidates for your employment needs NOW and in the future.
OVR supports individuals with disabilities to enter and maintain competitive and integrated employment.
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM).National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) is a national campaign that raises awareness about disability employment issues and celebrates the many and varied contributions of America's workers with disabilities. This year the Dept or Labor & Industry's NDEAM theme is “America’s Workforce: Empowering All" . Read the news release
Garden Healthcare
To provide compassionate quality care that encompasses both the physical and emotional well being of our residents.
To ensure that the dignity of each individual is respected.
To foster a loving environment providing each individual resident a sense of home and self-respect through our caring staff.
This diploma is for health care, human resources, counselling, career development and social services
professionals.
If you face the challenge of making accommodations for people with disabilities, if you need to understand the role of medical, psychological and ergonomic assessments, or if you are tasked with making decisions in the return-to-work process, this program is for you.
Learn more: SFU's Rehabilitation and Disability Management Diploma
This diploma is for health care, human resources, counselling, career development and social services
professionals.
If you face the challenge of making accommodations for people with disabilities, if you need to understand the role of medical, psychological and ergonomic assessments, or if you are tasked with making decisions in the return-to-work process, this program is for you.
Learn more: SFU's Rehabilitation and Disability Management Diploma
Revolutionary rehab technique shows promise in multiple sclerosis
According to findings from the UAB - The University of Alabama at Birmingham published in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy produced marked improvement in activities of daily living for patients with Multiple Sclerosis, and the improvement persisted for at least one year.
This diploma is for health care, human resources, counselling, career development and social services
professionals.
If you face the challenge of making accommodations for people with disabilities, if you need to understand the role of medical, psychological and ergonomic assessments, or if you are tasked with making decisions in the return-to-work process, this program is for you.
Learn more: SFU's Rehabilitation and Disability Management Diploma
Help identify priorities for a community-wide disability needs assessment.
Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network is partnering with the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion and theDisability Friendly Community of the Lehigh Valley to hold a community forum on Tuesday, March 27th at the Best Western Lehigh Valley Conference Center beginning at 10:30am and including a complimentary lunch at 12:30pm.
Come learn about past research and previous steps our community has taken to make the region more disability friendly. Share your ideas for new research directions. What do we need to learn more about? What questions remain to be asked? What information do we need as we work to create a more inclusive Lehigh Valley?
Results from the needs assessment will become public information to help agencies, advocates and individuals drive public change.
Free and open to the public. To help us prepare, please register by March 20, 2018.
For questions, or for help with registration, please contact Lanethea Mathews-Schultz, at [email protected] or 484-664-3737. For more information, visit http://www.goodshepherdrehab.org/forum.
Leaving Hospital and Recovering at Home
Survey: Health Quality Ontario is looking to better understand the experiences of patients who are leaving the hospital to recover at home (home also includes supportive housing, shelters, long-term care facilities and nursing homes).
We want to hear from patients—and their families—who have been admitted to an Ontario hospital overnight sometime in the last three years.
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/4062128/Transitions-Concept-Mapping
