by mkhetani | Dec 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
The first international primer on children’s participation, titled Enabling Participation in Childhood Onset Neuro-Disability (editors: Christine Imms and Dido Green) is about to be published at the start of our new decade, and just in time as the recent...
by Vivian Villegas | Nov 20, 2019 | Employment Opportunity, Newsbrief
We are excited to invite applicants for a one-year postdoctoral training opportunity in CPERL! The training experience will be thematically focused on mentoring the trainee to develop advanced scientific and management skills to grow a research program in childhood...
by mkhetani | Nov 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Mary and Briana, together with colleagues in Colorado, co-authored a paper recently accepted for publication in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. This paper involved secondary analyses of data on approximately 1,000 families who were discharged from a...
by vkaeli2 | Oct 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
CPERL team members attended and presented at the first combined AACPDM and IAACD conference in Anaheim, California, which brought together a record number of diverse professionals and parents from all over the world for knowledge exchange on cutting edge research in...
by mkhetani | Oct 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
CPERL director Mary Khetani traveled to Pakistan to deliver her first keynote at the International Conference on Early Childhood Development, held at the Allama Iqbal Open University. Her keynote was titled, “Building organizational capacity for family-centered...
by mkhetani | Sep 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
CPERL bids farewell to it’s next OTD graduate – Andrea Gurga – who successfully defended her OTD project and was recruited by community partner for this project, Blue Bird Day, to work as an occupational therapist in their early childhood...
by mkhetani | Aug 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
Listen up, researchers and students interested in advancing knowledge about early intervention service use and outcomes! CPERL recently delivered on an NIH-funded project to archive a second dataset created as part of an R03 grant, so that many more research questions...
by mkhetani | Aug 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Another one in the books. Well, in the Archives! Our manuscript exploring the most common types of participation-focused strategies that caregivers employ for their child after pediatric critical illness, has been published in the Archives of Physical Medicine and...
by mkhetani | Aug 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dianna recently published on her honors capstone project in Child: Care, Health, and Development! This publication comes on the eve of her transition to Boston to begin her OTD. This study, co-authored with her mentors, Jessica and Mary, examined the number of...
by mkhetani | Aug 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
It’s graduation season again at UIC OT, and our newest team member, Vivian, graduated with her MS degree. She was voted on by faculty to receive the Emerging Leader Award for “being a model graduate student who inspires, through her words and actions, to be...
