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Report on the U.S. Launch and Symposium for the World Report on Disability released

Posted on March 22, 2012

A U.S. Launch and Symposium on the World Report on Disability is now available. This 66 page document, prepared by Paul Ackerman, summarized the Symposium, including comments and questions raised during Q & A sessions.

Also included are links to speaker biographies and their presentations in Powerpoint format, if available.

ICF crosswalk bibliographies released

Posted on February 10, 2012

CIRRIE has just published a list of crosswalks between the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and other assessment/classification systems.

If there is a crosswalk that we've overlooked, please email Dan Conley.

Presentations from the U.S. Launch and Symposium for the World Report on Disability now available

Posted on January 24, 2012

Powerpoint presentations from the Symposium are now available. They have been posted in PDF format on the conference program section.

U.S. Launch and Symposium for the World Report on Disability concluded

Posted on October 12, 2011

September 12-13 CIRRIE conducted the U.S. Launch and Symposium for the World Report on Disability in conjunction with the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, the World Bank, the Interagency Committee on Disability Research, and the United States International Council on Disabilities.

The launch was a huge success and we thank everyone who attended. Video of the event will be posted soon on the symposium website.

Two new Encyclopedia articles

Posted on July 15, 2011

Signage, by Bill Crandall, and Physical Therapy - Key Component of the Rehabilitation Team, by Patricia J Ohtake, are now online in the International Encyclopedia of Rehabilitation in English.

World report on disability released

Posted on June 9, 2011

The World Health Organization's World report on disability has been officially released!

The World report on disability summarizes the best available scientific evidence on disability and makes recommendations for action in support of the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The product of a multi-year effort by over 300 contributors from all parts of the world, the World report provides documented evidence of the social and economic status of persons with disabilities, the state of disability services, the problems and good practices, as well as recommendations for needed research and development. It will also include the first update of WHO's global disability prevalence estimates for more than thirty years. For the topics discussed, it represents the best single source of knowledge on disability at the global scale.

Three new Encyclopedia articles added

Posted on March 21, 2011

In the past week we have added three new articles to the International Encyclopedia of Rehabilitation:

Physical Therapy – Exercise and Parkinson’s Disease by Fátima Rodrigues-de-Paula and Lidiane Oliveira Lima
Proprioception by Elizabeth O. Johnson and Panayotis N. Soucacos
Long term outcome after traumatic brain injury by Gerard M Ribbers

New Encyclopedia article: Social Participation

Posted on March 15, 2011

Social Participation, by Patrick Fougeyrollas, is now available in the International Encyclopedia of Rehabilitation in English.

New Encyclopedia article: Self-care

Posted on March 4, 2011

Self-care, by Julie Barlow, is now available in the International Encyclopedia of Rehabilitation in English.

New site design and features

Posted on March 1, 2011

CIRRIE is proud to unveil its new site design. Each of CIRRIE's funding cycles has had a different look and structure, and it is our hope that CIRRIE-3's website continues our tradition of functional, accessible design while incorporating new technologies and usability elements.

Among the new features of the CIRRIE website is the inclusion of two new RSS feeds, for CIRRIE news and to provide updates to CIRRIE's Rehabtalk announcement list. RSS has long been a way to stay updated with the latest news and changes to a website (see What is RSS? at Pro Blogger, http://www.problogger.net/what-is-rss/), and we have offered an RSS feed of our conference listing for years. In CIRRIE-3 we hope to increase the convenience of staying abreast of CIRRIE's updates and international rehabilitation news: the Rehabtalk feed contains news from other organizations about relevant programs and other announcements relevant to the rehab community, while the CIRRIE news feed contains changes and additions to the CIRRIE site, such as new additions to the database or new site features.

Additionally, CIRRIE is now on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ubcirrie) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-International-Rehabilitation-Research-Information-and-Exchange/196396067051413)! We will be posting updates to our conference, news and Rehabtalk feeds to these sites as well. We will still be maintaining the CIRRIE Update announcement list, which will be including the same news but updated only once a month. It is our goal to allow you to stay connected with CIRRIE in whichever way you prefer.

Although the new CIRRIE site has been reorganized slightly, any link to a page you may currently have should still work. If you encounter an error, or have any other comments or suggestions, please contact CIRRIE's webmaster, Dan Conley, at djconley@buffalo.edu.