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Publication Alert: Representation of Child and Youth Participation within the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS)

Posted on April 22, 2024

We are very excited to announce the publication of our original research article titled Representation of Child and Youth Participation within the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) in Disability and Rehabilitation. This work…

Publication Alert: A corpus of real-world solution-focused caregiver strategies for personalized pediatric rehabilitation service design

Posted on April 03, 2024

Coming soon to the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024): the latest NSF publication, CareCorpus: A corpus of real-world solution-focused caregiver strategies for personalized pediatric rehabilitation service…

Vivian, Natalie, and Mary at the 2024 NSF PI Meeting

CPERL and NLP attend and present at NSF PI meeting

Posted on April 01, 2024

The CPERL and NLP labs kicked off the Spring 2024 semester at the NSF Smart and Connected Communities Principal Investigators' Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.

CPERL Welcomes Lilyanna Patton

Posted on February 26, 2024

We are excited to welcome Lilyanna Patton to the CPERL team! Lily is a first-year UIC E-OTD student and part of the Children, Youth and Families Scholarship of Practice Collaborative. She will…

Publication alert: Caregiver Strategies Supporting Community Participation Among Children and Youth with or at Risk for Disabilities: A Mixed-Methods Study

Posted on January 22, 2024

CPERL has teamed up to publish new original research titled, Caregiver strategies supporting community participation among children and youth with or at risk for disabilities: A mixed methods study, in Frontiers of Pediatrics journal.

Publication Alert: Scoping review on medical home care and educational services for children and youth on the autism spectrum

Posted on January 22, 2024

Coming soon to the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders: the publication entitled, Medical home care and educational services for children and youth on the autism spectrum: A scoping review.

CPERL Engages in Knowledge Exchange at ICF Turkey Conference

Posted on December 11, 2023

CPERL goes global at the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Turkey (ICF-TR)

Shivani, Mary, and Ivana at AHS Research Day

Ivana and Shivani Shine in Sharing their Honors Capstone Projects at AHS Research Day

Posted on December 07, 2023

CPERL's two undergraduate research assistants, Shivani and Ivana, have completed their honors capstone projects and had the wonderful opportunity to present their findings at UIC's Applied Health Sciences (AHS) Research Day!

CPERL team members featured by American OT Foundation

Posted on October 29, 2023

CPERL team members get invited to share the stage in reflecting on their contributions to multiple projects funded by the American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF).

Publication Alert: Natural language processing to classify PEM data on caregiver strategies for promoting child and youth participation

Posted on October 25, 2023

CPERL team publishes a new article in the Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research and continues their work with an honors capstone project.

New NIH/NCATS Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) Implementation Research Pilot Grant

Posted on October 09, 2023

We are excited to share that the CPERL team has been awarded one of four UIC CCTS Implementation Research Pilot Grants supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) within the…

CPERL at AACPDM

Posted on October 05, 2023

The CPERL team attends the 77th AACPDM Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

Publication Alert: Diversifying caregiver input to upgrade the YC-PEM

Posted on September 23, 2023

CPERL team publishes a new article in the Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes.

CanChild Contract Renewed for 5th Year

Posted on September 12, 2023

CPERL is thrilled to announce the renewal of our sponsored contract with CanChild for the 5th year in a row! This funding will continue to support research and knowledge translation activities in our lab…

CPERL bids a semi-farewell to Dr. Sabrin Rizk!

Sabrin transitions to faculty

Posted on August 01, 2023

CPERL bids a semi-farewell to Dr. Sabrin Rizk as she transitions to a tenure track faculty position in the Department of Occupational Therapy here at UIC!

Ivana embarks on an ambitious honors capstone project with NSF funding

New NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Supplement

Posted on July 15, 2023

CPERL secures new NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates funding for Ivana to deliver on am ambitious honors capstone project.

Vera Transitions to Postdoc

Posted on June 21, 2023

CPERL bids farewell to Dr. Vera Kaelin as she prepares to transition to postdoctoral training in Sweden.

Mary receives honors at the 2023 AOTA INSPIRE Conference & Expo

Posted on May 01, 2023

And the Award Goes To… Led by her vision and commitment to building and advancing family-centered and participation-focused pediatric re/habilitation, Mary received the AOTA Roster of Fellows Award at the 2023 AOTA INSPIRE…

Image of Vera receiving the award and shaking hands with the AHS dean Carlos Crespo

Vera secures AHS Achievement Award

Posted on April 27, 2023

We are excited to announce that Vera has been awarded the 2022-2023 AHS Achievement Award presented by the UIC College of Applied Health Sciences. The Achievement Award is given to one student from each…

Our first 'three-peat'

Posted on April 10, 2023

CPERL announces its first triple publication alert! We are excited to share that three of our manuscripts were accepted for publication within one week. Each manuscript is pivotal to advancing CPERL members’ training…

Shivani Secures Honors College Grant

Posted on April 03, 2023

Shivani has been awarded a grant from UIC's Honors College to support her research for her capstone.

CPERL welcomes Ivana Lucero to the team

Posted on February 20, 2023

We are thrilled to welcome Ivana Lucero in our CPERL team! Ivana is a fourth-year UIC undergraduate student, majoring in Psychology and part of the UIC Honors College program. She will be involved…

Semi-Farewell to Zuri

Posted on February 15, 2023

We honor Zuri's contributions to our lab as she transitions to completing her MS program of study.

CPERL hosts Dr. Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon

Posted on February 13, 2023

CPERL hosted Dr. Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon, ScD, OTR, a clinical assistant professor in the OT Department at Boston University, during a jam-packed day of scholarship and solidarity. As part the day’s events, Dr. Yinusa-Nyahkoon…

Sabrin secures a UIC IRRPP Faculty Fellowship

Posted on January 10, 2023

Sabrin will become a 2023-2024 Faculty Fellow through the UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy.

CPERL alumnae pioneering the way

Posted on December 20, 2022

Our lab strives to maintain connections to CPERL alumnae, Andrea Gurga and Jessica Jarvis, as they advance in their career trajectories and accomplish next-level, professional milestones. Andrea has moved to Colorado and was…

Publication Alert: Mixed-methods study on stakeholder perspectives to improve YC-PEM implementation in early intervention

Posted on December 15, 2022

PROSPECT Aim 2 is coming soon to a special journal section on patient engagement in informatics.

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