Tag Archives: rehabilitation
Cognitive Rehabilitation Update February 9th, 2011
This week, BIAA partnered with Wounded Warrior Project to follow up with Congressional staff regarding the recent press around TRICARE’s non-coverage of cognitive rehabilitation for medically retired service members. Many initiatives spearheaded by BIAA in the past few years have
NIDRR Proposed Long-Range Plan
This week, as part of the Disability and Rehabilitaion Research Coalition (DRRC), BIAA signed on to comments regarding the proposed long range plan (Fiscal Years 2010-2014) for the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). The NIDRR proposal focuses
BIAA Urges Repeal of Medicare’s Two-Year Wait Period
On November 12, 2008, BIAA joined the Coalition to End the Two-Year Wait for Medicare – which represents over 75 health advocacy organizations – in launching its campaign to urge the next Congress to end the 24-month wait for Medicare
BIAA Testifies at Social Security Administration Compassionate Allowances Hearing
On November 18, 2008, BIAA Director of Consumer Services, Greg Ayotte, testified in Arlington, Virginia at a Social Security Administration (SSA) Compassionate Allowance outreach hearing on brain injuries.
BIAA Spearheads Senate Letter Urging TRICARE to Cover Cognitive Rehabilitation
Reflecting one of BIAA’s biggest public policy accomplishments this year, a group of Senators issued a letter on August 4, 2008 to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates urging official TRICARE coverage of cognitive rehabilitation.
Scientists seek to help ‘locked-in’ man speak
NEW YORK (CNN) — It’s been described as the closest thing to being buried alive — complete paralysis of the body, except for controlled movement of the eyes.
Special Education: The expensive vehicle that will help drive our children to a better future
Local schools are called upon to make major investments in the lives of children with special needs Name : Ronald Scaglia Last year, 21 Long Island school districts’ budgets were defeated, and a record number were forced to adopt austerity
JRRD tipsheet: Focus on stroke, Parkinson’s treatment, wheelchair durability
Rehabilitation Chronic stroke patients benefit from robotic upper-limb rehabilitation, Intense, short-term, upper-limb robotic therapy improved motor outcomes among chronic stroke patients. Investigators enrolled 30 patients with upper-limb impairment due to stroke. Over 3 weeks, 18 sessions of robot-assisted therapy were
Luci Center benefit will celebrate horses, new start
Name : Walt Reichert/Sentinel-News Associate Editor Amateur photographer Molly Raper has captured hundreds of horses on film in nearly every kind of setting, from wild horses splashing in water on the beaches of North Carolina to a pair of therapy
Graduate enters field that helped her find her voice
By David Tisdale Brooke Jorns Davis of Hattiesburg will walk the walk at graduation today at the University of Southern Mississippi, only because the university’s Children’s Center for Communication and Development enabled her to talk the talk. As a child,
