March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
Join us Thursday, March 9th for Dr. Laura Lee McIntyre’s virtual pediatric grand rounds presentation entitled, Working Together: Leveraging Parents to Improve Behavioral Health Outcomes in Children with Developmental Disabilities. Dr. McIntyre has over twenty years of clinical and research experience focused on developing parent, educator, and professional relationships that support children with developmental delays or disabilities. Find more information on accessing grand rounds here.
Join us all month on our social media accounts to celebrate the many ways in which people with and without disabilities can come together to form strong, diverse communities through concepts like allyship, raise awareness of barriers to inclusion such as ableism, and share resources that improve the lives of people with disabilities. Like, comment, and share our #DDawareness2023 posts on Facebook and Twitter!
What's happening - current news
Teaching efforts featured by OHSU news
In the article, Unique OHSU program trains future clinicians to address needs, challenges of patients with disabilities, the UCEDD’s work in the med school gets recognition.
Bloomberg News produced a video about Dr. Melanie Fried-Oken's Brain Computer Interface work
Recent newsletters:
DD Awareness Month OHSU Week podcasts
National network newsletters featuring our center:
- September 2022 AUCD 360 Story - Why is it so difficult to change ableist language?
- September 2022 - Building Community Capacity for Accessible Vaccine Events
- July 2022 AUCD 360 Story - Emergency Preparedness for People with Disabilities
- April 2022 AUCD 360 Story - Celebrating 50 Years
- October 2021 AUCD 360 Story - UCEDD Director wins Excellence in Teaching Award
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Four Wheeling Through Life
Jan Staehely - UCEDD Staff, Communication Consultant and Blogger, writes about her life in her blog Four Wheeling Through Life. "I have a disability called Cerebral Palsy. Since all four of my limbs, plus my speech is affected by the disability, doctors say that I am severely disabled. However, if you ask me, I will tell you that there are people living with more complex disabilities than me."