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Welcome to the website of the Institute on Disability and Human Development (IDHD) in the Department of Disability and Human Development (DHD), University of Illinois at Chicago. It is designed to give you updated information on our activities and resources. Read more News from IDHDThe Department of Disability and Human Development in the College of Applied Health Sciences, is honored to announce the Carlos Drazen Memorial Scholarship, established by the Farkas Family Foundation in honor of the memory, vision and passion of Carlos Clarke Drazen. Congratulations to Disability Studies PhD candidate Vijay Vasudevan, who is the winner of the 2012 Midwest Roybal Center for Health Promotion and Translation doctoral pilot project grant competition. Congratulations to Disability Studies PhD candidate Kate Caldwell, who was awarded a Chancellor's Graduate Research Fellowship for 2011-2012. Read the news release here. IDHD has released the final report of "An Evaluation of the Howe Developmental Center Closure" by Amy Sorensen, Mary Kay Rizzolo, Amie Lulinski-Norris & Tamar Heller. Read it here. IDHD has released a research brief entitled "The Closure of Lincoln Developmental Center: An Analysis of Outcomes" by Amie Lulinski-Norris, Mary Kay Rizzolo & Tamar Heller. Read it here. The AUCD has released a document titled Getting Involved in Research and Training Projects: A Guide for Persons with Disabilities which was co-authored by several IDHD staff. You can access a pdf of the publication here. Watch a video created by Carli Friedman, a current DHD student, that highlights DHD academic programs and student experiences in the words of current students. The video is found on YouTube here or watch it on our academic programs page. Professor and Director of the Center on Capacity Building for Minorities with Disabilities Research Fabricio Balcazar was recently featured in a UIC News article on a new two-year project on youth with disabilities and entrepreneurship. Read the article here. Associate Professor and Director of the Program on Disability Art, Culture, and Humanities Carrie Sandahl was recently interviewed on the Disability Beat radio program. She discussed her film project, Code of the Freaks a documentary exploring the portrayal of disability in mainstream film as well as viewers reactions. You can listen to the podcast here (on the 10.5.11 program). (Transcipt). AUCD has released a research brief, entitled Self-Determination and Self-Advocacy the first issue in the "Research to Practice in Self-Determination" series. Click here to see the report. Monthly Group Parent Training Sessions provided by The Autism Clinic & TAP Oral Histories of Self Advocates with Developmental Disabilities Added to UC Berkeley Library The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley is pleased to announce the addition of a new collection of oral histories of leaders in the self-advocacy movement.To access the collection of leaders in the self-advocacy movement click here.
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