Tag Archive | "rehabilitation"
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 mainly on employment, making only passing references to health and function research. In the comments, BIAA and [...]
Continue reading...BIAA Urges Repeal of Medicare’s Two-Year Wait Period
Monday, November 24, 2008
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 coverage faced by people with disabilities.
Continue reading...BIAA Testifies at Social Security Administration Compassionate Allowances Hearing
Monday, November 24, 2008
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.
Continue reading...BIAA Spearheads Senate Letter Urging TRICARE to Cover Cognitive Rehabilitation
Friday, September 5, 2008
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.
Continue reading...Scientists seek to help ‘locked-in’ man speak
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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.
Continue reading...Special Education: The expensive vehicle that will help drive our children to a better future
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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 [...]
Continue reading...JRRD tipsheet: Focus on stroke, Parkinson’s treatment, wheelchair durability
Monday, October 2, 2006
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 delivered with the use of a robotic exercise device. Significant improvements were observed for severely impaired participants, [...]
Continue reading...Luci Center benefit will celebrate horses, new start
Friday, September 29, 2006
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 horses rough-playing in a pasture in Shelby County.
Continue reading...Graduate enters field that helped her find her voice
Friday, September 29, 2006
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, Davis had an articulation disorder that prevented her from engaging in normal speech.
Continue reading...Proposed study seeks a better way to treat blood loss
Friday, September 29, 2006
Trauma – Doctors want to test hypertonic saline on accident victims in Portland and other cities Name : ANDY DWORKIN Doctors hope that the traumatic accidents of thousands in Oregon and nationwide will answer a vexing question: How to best help people who have lost lots of blood?
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