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The Canada Research Chair in Evidence-Based Healthcare Education, Practice and Policy has been awarded to Aliki Thomas for a period of 5 years to enable her to dedicate 80% of her time to research and development of the Vision and…
Read more about Aliki Thomas – Holds a Canada Research Chair in Education, Practice and Policy for Evidence-Based Healthcare, CIHR, Level 2

Last June, Walter Wittich, CRIR-INLB/CCRLL researcher and Natalina Martiniello, Ph.D.,, postdoctoral fellow at CRIR participated in the recording of an interview on the importance of touch for people with deafblindness. episode 6 “Le besoin des autres” at 15 min. 59 sec….
Read more about Télé-Québec : Magazine « Beau dans ma tête » : CRIR-INLB/CCRLL researcher and Natalina Martiniello, Ph.D., postdoctoral training at CRIR

The main focus of SASSI at McGill University is to create top quality research of elite sports, conducted in a world class facility. Adopting a multidisciplinary research approach, SASSI aspires to be better understand the performance, training and psychology of…
Read more about Julie N. Côté – Appointed Director of the Sylvan Adams Sports Science Institute (SASSI) of McGill University

L’idée d’un tel projet est née chez le professeur Jocelyn Faubert de l’Université de Montréal, qui cherchait à protéger sa mère de chutes à répétition. Chez les aînés, les chutes ont souvent de graves répercussions, pouvant même contribuer à leur…
Read more about Journal de Montréal : Des chercheurs québécois développent actuellement au Japon une technologie pour détecter et prévenir les chutes chez les aînés | Jocelyn Faubert, chercheur au CRIR

Do you know the Podcast, « La Parole Aux Orthophonistes » ? It is a place of exchange between speech therapists. The themes are diverse: administrative, parenthood, gender, training, etc. Brief ! Everything that makes our job, our job quite…
Read more about Podcast : « La Parole Aux Orthophonistes »

SELA – Programme d’entraînement de la localisation auditive pour une clientèle présentant une surdicécité  Clinician Julie Dufour (CRIR-IURDPM) talks about the SELA tool developed jointly with the Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille (INLB) to help people with deafblindness (hearing and visual…
Read more about Ami télé : Interview with the clinician Julie Dufour (CRIR-IURDPM) | Émission “Ça me regarde”

Congratulations to researcher Mindy Levin, Ph.D. (CRIR-Hôpital juif de réadaptation (HJR)) on receiving the Distinguished Service Award 2023 from the International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation (ISVR). The award recognizes “outstanding leadership, dedication and service”. Congratulations Mindy!   Read about her…
Read more about Mindy Levin – Award winner of Distinguished Service Award 2023 of the International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation (ISVR)

The CRIR scientific direction congratulates Daniel Bourbonnais, CRIR-IURDPM associate researcher, for this award of excellence received for his exceptional career in rehabilitation.   With this award, REPAR recognizes the excellence and commitment to the development and influence of rehabilitation research carried…
Read more about Daniel Bourbonnais — Winner of the REPAR 2023 Excellence Award

Émission “Ça me regarde” AMI-télé the only French-language service magazine on disability hosted weekly by Kéven Breton.     Researcher Félix Chénier (CRIR-IURDPM) talks among other things about the wheelchair propulsion simulator project he is working on in his CRIR laboratory: Mobility…
Read more about AMI télé : Douleurs aux épaules lorsqu’on se propulse en fauteuil roulant | Félix Chénier, CRIR-IURDPM Researcher

Québec Science, Le Magazine : Alexis Nihon : un centre commercial aménagé par la clientèle handicapée et des scientifiques. En partenariat avec le Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé, le magazine Québec Science présente le chantier qui fut créé à la fine pointe…
Read more about Québec Science, Le Magazine : Alexis Nihon : un centre commercial inclusif et accessible | Chercheures : Eva Kehayia (CRIR-HJR) et Bonnie Swaine (CRIR-IURDPM)