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Thank you for visiting the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Aging with Developmental Disabilities: Lifespan Health and Function. We hope this website will give you useful information on aging with developmental disabilities, age friendly environments, health promotion, and family support.News and Recent Events
The RRTC has partnered with the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry to support the National Task Group on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia Practices.
State of the Science Conference on Lifespan Health and Function of Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Translating Research into Practice
*"UIC-Community Health Program Empowers Persons with Developmental Disability"
The RRTC has partnered with the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry to support the National Task Group on Intellectual Disabilities and Dementia Practices.
State of the Science Conference on Lifespan Health and Function of Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: Translating Research into Practice
*"UIC-Community Health Program Empowers Persons with Developmental Disability"
New!
The newly released report Bridging Aging and Developmental Disabilities Service Networks: Challenges and Best Practices, produced by the Institute on Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, identifies policy and service delivery issues pertaining to older adults with developmental disabilities and their families and recommends opportunities to enhance collaboration among the aging, disability, and long-term care networks. Key policy initiatives addressed include the Aging and Disability Resource Centers, the Lifespan Respite Act, the National Alzheimer’s Project Act, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Download a Word version of the report HERE and a pdf version HERE.
New!
Getting Involved in Research and Training: A Guide for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (2012) by Tamar Heller, Tia Nelis, Sheila Collins and Esther Lee Pederson. This guide explains to people with disabilities how they can participate in research and training projects, describes what research and training is, and what a participant can do. It also provides examples of projects and of ways to address problems others have had when working on research and training. It was developed by the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with Developmental Disabilities and the National Gateway to Self-Determination. It is also on the National Gateway to Self-Determination website http://www.aucd.org/ngsd/template/index.cfm
Getting Involved in Research and Training: A Guide for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (2012) by Tamar Heller, Tia Nelis, Sheila Collins and Esther Lee Pederson. This guide explains to people with disabilities how they can participate in research and training projects, describes what research and training is, and what a participant can do. It also provides examples of projects and of ways to address problems others have had when working on research and training. It was developed by the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Aging with Developmental Disabilities and the National Gateway to Self-Determination. It is also on the National Gateway to Self-Determination website http://www.aucd.org/ngsd/template/index.cfm
New!
Disability Through the Life Course by Tamar Heller and Sarah Parker Harris explores topics central to the lives of people with disabilities across the life course. In this book, the life course approach assumes that, beginning prenatally, events occurring early in life affect later periods in one's life. Read more HERE.
Health Matters
The Exercise and Nutrition Health Education Curriculum for People with Developmental Disabilities
By Beth Marks, RN, Ph.D., Jasmina Sisirak, M.P.H., & Tamar Heller, Ph.D.
A research-based, field-tested program that's already made a dramatic difference in the lives of participants with disabilities, this proven curriculum shows professionals how to conduct up to 59 one-hour sessions that help people make the best choices about health, exercise, and nutrition.
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The Exercise and Nutrition Health Education Curriculum for People with Developmental Disabilities
By Beth Marks, RN, Ph.D., Jasmina Sisirak, M.P.H., & Tamar Heller, Ph.D.
A research-based, field-tested program that's already made a dramatic difference in the lives of participants with disabilities, this proven curriculum shows professionals how to conduct up to 59 one-hour sessions that help people make the best choices about health, exercise, and nutrition.
Save 10%! Enter the code RRTC at checkout.
Health Matters for People with Developmental Disabilities: Creating a Sustainable Health Promotion Program
By Beth Marks, RN, Ph.D., Jasmina Sisirak, M.P.H., & Tamar Heller, Ph.D.
Adults with developmental disabilities are at significant risk for health problems. Effective health promotion can improve outcomes—and that's why adult day and residential agencies, schools, and other organizations need this invaluable program development guide. An urgent call to action and a start-to-finish framework for health promotion, this book shows administrators and service providers how to increase supports for health education, exercise and nutrition by implementing their own successful program. Go HERE.
By Beth Marks, RN, Ph.D., Jasmina Sisirak, M.P.H., & Tamar Heller, Ph.D.
Adults with developmental disabilities are at significant risk for health problems. Effective health promotion can improve outcomes—and that's why adult day and residential agencies, schools, and other organizations need this invaluable program development guide. An urgent call to action and a start-to-finish framework for health promotion, this book shows administrators and service providers how to increase supports for health education, exercise and nutrition by implementing their own successful program. Go HERE.
Department of Disability and Human Development (DHD)
College of Applied Health Sciences (CAHS)
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
1640 West Roosevelt Road, M/C 626
Chicago, Illinois 60608-6904
Phone: 1-312-413-1520
Fax: 1-312-996-6942
TTY: 1-312-413-0453
Clearinghouse 800-996-8845 (V), 800-526-0844 (Chicago Relay Access)
Funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
(Grant # H133B080009)
College of Applied Health Sciences (CAHS)
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
1640 West Roosevelt Road, M/C 626
Chicago, Illinois 60608-6904
Phone: 1-312-413-1520
Fax: 1-312-996-6942
TTY: 1-312-413-0453
(Grant # H133B080009)