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People with disabilities need affordable wheelchair scales
Generally speaking, most people are aware of the health risks associated with being overweight or obese. The more a person weighs, the more likely they will be prone to type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, gallbladder and liver complications, stroke, depression, and other serious health risks.
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Expert gives insight on disability, language, identity
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Let’s talk about disability
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Six months at the collaborative
A week ago today marked exactly six months at UAB and in my role of Communications Specialist for CEDHARS and the Collaborative. In part, I was excited about the position because I knew the culture at UAB and especially Lakeshore would be extremely conducive for someone with a disability joining the workforce.
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What’s this thing called inclusion science?
I’ve been tossing the inclusion science term around the past few years, and I occasionally see a few people scratching their head wondering what this actually means. Personally, I consider it a way for UAB researchers to differentiate themselves. There are several reasons why.
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CEDHARS Seminar Series returns
The CEDHARS Seminar Series, co-sponsored by the Rehabilitation Sciences PhD program, has returned, kicking off with a pair of presentations on Thursday, March 24, and Tuesday, March 29, featuring presentations on optimizing patient outcomes.
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Q&A with Lakeshore Foundation CEO John Kemp
Just a handful of months on the job, Lakeshore Foundation CEO John Kemp sat down with CEDHARS News for a conversation on his background, the foundation, and the future of its relationship with the Collaborative.
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Postdoc making video games inclusive, accessible
In 2009, Nintendo sold over 26 million units of the Wii active videogaming system, giving rise to active videogames, or AVG, and revolutionizing the gaming experience. Now, Dr. Christen Mendonca is using pilot grant funding awarded by CEDHARS in February 2022 to potentially develop a new revolution to the gaming experience – this time with regards to inclusivity and accessibility.
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Diversity, equity, and inclusion may have originated with parents who fought for their child with disabilities to be included in local public schools
Before the mid-1970s, most children with disabilities were educated in “special” schools for “special” children. The word in itself was offensive to parents and children who didn’t want to be labeled special; all they wanted was to be accepted. Sadly, children with disabilities would “graduate” from a school system completely void of any social contact with their so-called peers, and significantly underprepared to enter college, let alone the workforce. Many returned home to live with their parents for much of their adult life.
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When a label creates injury and harm to others
We often take for granted certain terms or phrases we hear in the media describing a person who happens to have a disability. Many of us presume (incorrectly) that if it’s heard in the media, it must be okay. Unfortunately, when it comes to “characterizing” someone with a disability, disability scholars refer to this as judgmental terminology or ableism.
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MENTOR re-launches to serve larger population
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New chair of PM&R sees department, collaborative as ‘sleeping giants’
Although Dr. Vu Nguyen knew he wanted to be a doctor as early as seventh grade, the self-proclaimed lifelong learner had some of his most impactful professional experiences in the military.
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Exergaming the way to recovery
Dr. Byron Lai is hard to pin down, both literally and metaphorically.
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Researcher leading the crossover of medicine and technology
With a career spanning across four decades, Dr. Mohan Thirumalai has paved the way for groundbreaking research at the cross-section of medicine and technology. Thirumalai joined the UAB/Lakeshore Research Collaborative before its surname ever included UAB or Lakeshore.
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Nothing About Us Without Us: Where inclusion science meets disability inclusion
Several years ago, a good colleague of mine, Jim Charlton, wrote a classic book titled Nothing About Us Without Us. At the time of publication, the disability rights movement was riding the crest of civil rights legislation with its own passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, better known as the ADA.
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Personal meets professional: Interest sparks blaze of research
When a young Christine Ferguson stepped onto the campus of the University of Alabama as a wide-eyed freshman pre-med student, she had no idea that a personal interest in health would spark a flame that has now grown into a full-blown blaze of research.
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The man behind the news curtain
My name is Stephen Lanzi, and I am the new communications specialist at CEDHARS and the UAB/Lakeshore Research Collaborative. I am extremely excited for this opportunity to promote and advance the mission of CEDHARS and the Research Collaborative, and I hope you join me in this newsletter as we look at all the groundbreaking research CEDHARS and the Collaborative have to share.
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What are the inclusion sciences?
I am pleased to share with you the inaugural CEDHARS newsletter. Realizing how busy we all are, the purpose of one more email needs a strong justification; we have several.
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