Rewriting the Future of Rehabilitation Gamified, Brain-Smart Therapy for Children with Cerebral Palsy For many children with cerebral palsy (CP), therapy is both essential and exhausting.They practice the same hand movements and repeat words and sentences over and over. Sessions are often scheduled in different clinics for different problems: speech in one place, arm [...]
Using AI to Train the Next Generation of Clinicians Inside Rutgers School of Health Professions’ Emerging Virtual Health Care Simulator Initiative With just a few words, a clinician can turn a patient’s life upside down. Mr. Smith, a 65-year-old patient, sits across from the student clinician who delivers the news: “Your biopsy shows [...]
Listening First: How Rutgers SHP is Redesigning Care With Communities When systems are designed far from the people who use them, even good intentions can land badly.An autistic adult’s pain is dismissed as just behavior.A bilingual child is routed into special education because a test wasn’t built for them.An older woman leaves the free [...]
Panel Discussion with NJ Senator Angela McKnight On December 9th, NJ Senator Angela McKnight & NJ City University hosted a panel discussion on the relationship between cursive handwriting and literacy skills. NJ Senator Angela McKnight Dr. Liz Abadiotakis, Program Director of the Rutgers Occupational Therapy Assistant Program and a Pediatric Occupational Therapist [...]
Mindfulness Art Tuesdays Mindfulness Art Tuesdays brought SHP faculty and staff together throughout October and November for a midweek pause inspired by the Swedish concept of FIKA—taking time to step back, reconnect, and recharge. Across the series, participants explored watercolor, collage, and guided mindfulness prompts while building community through shared creative practice.Now that the [...]
From Scientific Discoveries to Clinical Impact How Rutgers SHP Is Re-defining Behavioral Interventions Significant advances in modern health care have led to discoveries that improve lives, yet the gap between innovation and real‑world implementation often prevents those benefits from reaching the people who need them most.People with serious mental health problems can thrive in [...]