Lab announcements

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Thanks for visiting this page where we work together to capture the various facets of our team's journey to date. For posts older than 2020, please see this website.

CPERL Welcomes Varun

Posted on August 27, 2020

We extend a warm welcome to Varun Maheshwari to the CPERL team!

Publication Alert: Caregiver satisfaction with home participation post-PICU

Posted on August 20, 2020

Jessica, our first CPERL postdoc alum, officially finished publishing on work undertaken during her postdoctoral training in our lab when she received news of publication for an article in BMC Pediatrics.

Semi-Farewell to Kyle

Posted on August 14, 2020

Our newest CPERL member, Kyle Truevillian, has completed his summer internship with us and is headed back down to begin his junior year at Emory University this Fall.

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CPERL receives its first caregiver commentary on PEM+ publication

Posted on July 01, 2020

CPERL is honored to receive its first caregiver commentary.

Publication alert: Increasing Evidence for Implementing YC-PEM in Early Intervention

Posted on June 13, 2020

We're pleased to announce that our paper titled "Increasing Evidence for Implementing YC-PEM in Early Intervention" has been accepted to be published in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision-Making.

Publication alert: Early Intervention Service Intensity and Home Participation

Posted on June 13, 2020

We are thrilled to announce the publication of our new article, Early Intervention Service Intensity and Home Participation, in BMC Pediatrics!

CPERL welcomes Mehdi

Posted on June 11, 2020

Can you hear that sound of joy, too? It is coming from Chicago, where we are rebuilding our interdisciplinary CPERL team to include the full continuum of members, ranging from those completing undergraduate…

CPERL welcomes Kyle

Posted on May 19, 2020

CPERL is excited to welcome Kyle Truevillian to the team!

Publication Alert: Community participation in children with craniofacial differences

Posted on May 15, 2020

Lab meetings seem to bring publication luck! One week after we received the good news about the acceptance of one of our manuscripts during lab meeting, it happened again!

Detecting unmet participation need among students with craniofacial microsomia

Posted on April 27, 2020

We celebrated two good things at the very same time this week! This past year or so, we had the opportunity to dig into data that were collected by a team in Boston…

CPERL secures new funding

Posted on April 03, 2020

With all that is happening in the world right now, we are glad to share some good news! We, together with our collaborators Beth McManus (Co-I), Jodi Dooling-Litfin (Co-I), and Elizabeth Papautsky (Co-I),…

CPERL welcomes Zuri

Posted on April 02, 2020

CPERL is excited to welcome Zuri Salgado as an undergraduate research assistant.

Publication alert: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effects of PEM+

Posted on March 25, 2020

Time to celebrate! Our manuscript reporting on the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of Participation and Environment Measure-Plus (PEM+), has been accepted for publication in Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. We are excited…

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Vera invited to present at CLDR annual meeting

Posted on March 06, 2020

This January, Vera had the honor of being invited to present on data archiving at the annual Center for Large Data Research (CLDR) meeting. She presented on two datasets that are available through ADDEP.

Publication alert: Characterizing caregiver strategy use to promote young children's participation

Posted on January 22, 2020

AJOT publication exploring the most common types of participation-focused strategies used by caregivers.

Andrea publishes and is featured as an inspiring graduate

Posted on January 13, 2020

Andrea publishes on OTD project and is featured as a UIC inspiring graduate

CPERL contributes two chapters to first international primer on children's participation

Posted on December 04, 2019

Mary and Jessica, were invited to write two chapters for this book, the first international primer on children's participation with an innovative approach to maximizing readership!

Postdoctoral Training Opportunity

Posted on November 20, 2019

Join our team! CPERL is seeking a postdoctoral associate who engaged in interdisciplinary and multi-site intervention and implementation research that leverages technology to advance family-centered and participation-focused pediatric (re)habilitatio

Publication Alert: Early intervention service intensity linked to gains in cognitive and social functioning

Posted on November 05, 2019

Mary and Briana, together with colleagues in Colorado, co-authored a paper recently accepted for publication in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Mary delivers first international keynote in Pakistan

Posted on October 09, 2019

CPERL director Mary Khetani traveled to Pakistan to deliver her first keynote at the International Conference on Early Childhood Development.

Vera and Mary attend and present at premier childhood disability conference

Posted on October 09, 2019

CPERL team members recently attended and presented at the first-ever combined AACPDM and IAACD conference in Anaheim, California.

Andrea defends her OTD project and bids farewell

Posted on September 09, 2019

CPERL bids farewell to a second OTD graduate!

Another dataset archived and available for use!

Posted on August 21, 2019

Listen up, researchers and students interested in advancing knowledge about early intervention service use and outcomes! CPERL recently delivered on an NIH-funded project to archive a second dataset created as part of an…

New Publication on PEM+

Posted on August 13, 2019

Dianna recently published on her honors capstone project in Child: Care, Health, and Development! This publication comes on the eve of her transition to Boston to begin her OTD. This study, co-authored with her…

New publication on caregiver strategies to promote participation after pediatric critical illness

Posted on August 13, 2019

Another one in the books. Well, in the Archives!

Vivian Transitions from MS to OTD

Posted on August 03, 2019

It’s graduation season again at UIC OT, and our newest team member, Vivian, graduated with her MS degree and received the Emerging Leader Award!

New publication on building organizational capacity for early intervention research

Posted on August 02, 2019

Briana, our first OTD graduate, has successfully led the way to publishing on her project in the latest edition of the ZERO TO THREE Journal. This article, co-authored with her doctoral committee and…

CPERL in Paris

Posted on July 01, 2019

CPERL flew across the pond this May to present at the European Academy of Childhood Disability in Paris, France. Three of our abstracts were accepted for a poster presentation to an audience of…

CPERL celebrates first OTD graduate

Posted on May 20, 2019

CPERL is celebrating our first OTD graduate! Briana Rigau wraps up her time in our lab on May 20. She has chosen to transition to Peek-a-boo Pediatric Therapy in Denver, Colorado to work…

Dianna heads to Beantown