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September 8-14
September 8 – 14, 2024 is Direct Support Professional (DSP) recognition week! […]
Research About Us, With Us: An Inclusive Research Case Study
Research is better when it includes community partners. Our recent paper, "Research about us, with us" describes how we include partners with lived disability experience on our team and how it improves our project. [...]
Inclusive Research Training
This week, leaders of our Disability Experience Expert Panel provided inclusive research training to new members of the Special Olympics' Athlete Advisory Board. Our work aims to include more community members with lived disability experience [...]
17th IASSIDD World Conference
Dr. Susan Havercamp presented at the IASSID meeting in Chicago on improving health care for people with disabilities through training healthcare providers. The 17th IASSIDD World Conference is the leading international research and practice meetings [...]
National Wellness Month
August is National Wellness Month! This month is a reminder that it is important to take care of yourself. It's easy to put health and wellness on the backburner, and research has shown self-care can [...]
Community Health Worker Self-Care Resources
Building Bridges has created a training initiative to increase self-care for community health workers (CHW). "Self-care helps to build self strength to deal with various environments, enabling work and family coordination". The final product of [...]
How to Use the My Mental Health Therapy Toolkit
The My Mental Health Therapy Toolkit includes a guide for adults with intellectual disability to complete. Christine Brown shows how to complete this in the YouTube Playlist below: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm6qH9PB5cC92DrqzRIwNrffFRHCtv_YM
July – Disability Pride Month
https://ppaccentral.org/2023/07/01/july-is-disability-pride-month July is recognized as Disability Pride Month in honor of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This act ensures that those with disabilities can participate in and enjoy all aspects of [...]
June 18th – Autistic Pride Day
June 18th was Autistic Pride Day The RRTC Project and OSU Nisonger Center recognize and celebrate the importance of pride for autistic people and its role in bringing about positive changes in broader society. Autistic [...]
“We’ll Take Another Look in Six Months”: Strategies for Supporting Black Families Raising Young Autistic Children
Thank you to all who attended our Nisonger Institute event Friday, 6/7/24. We had a wonderful keynote from Dr. Jamie Pearson and excellent discussion among our panel which included Dr. Katie Walton as moderator, Dr. [...]
Can You Hear Me Now? – Recruitment Video