Improving Quality of Life for Persons with Developmental Disabilities and Autism

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New Research Grant on Caregiver Safety

Congratulations to Drs. Bev Temple & Toby Martin, and colleagues at St.Amant and New Directions, for their successful grant application to the Research and Workplace Innovation Program at the Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba. The 2-year grant, titled Working with Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities: Injuries and Challenging Behaviour, aims to understand how workplace injury occurrence [...]

Meeting Knowledge Needs

We recently began a landmark collaboration with St.Amant School to meet a pressing need for high-quality information about treating challenging behaviours. In this two-year project, researchers and teachers will develop a knowledge translation process to make relevant research findings user-friendly, easily accessible, and available to all teachers and related professionals.

Pain Assessment Review

Dr. Bev Temple and colleagues have undertaken a scoping review on the topic of assessing and treating pain in people with developmental disabilities (DD).