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Interest in Service Dogs by Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury: A Pilot Study
Tiffanie A. Brashear, PA, and Diana H. Rintala, Phd

Shifting Sands: Changing the Way We Think About Practice
Pat Dorsett, PhD, and Patricia Fronek, BSW

Rehabilitation Intervention […]

Tiffanie A. Brashear, PA, and Diana H. Rintala, PhD
Abstract
Background/Objective: Service dogs are trained to help individuals with disabilities maximize function and enhance social participation. This pilot study obtained an estimate of the proportion of veterans with spinal cord injuries (SCI) receiving care from a Veterans Affairs Medical Center who were interested in information about, […]

Pat Dorsett, PhD and Patricia Fronek, BSW
Abstract
    Social workers and psychologists can play an important role within the wider interdisciplinary team by ensuring contemporary research findings are translated into daily practice. Despite shifts in knowledge found in contemporary literature, new understandings are not always translated into daily practice. Health care professionals tend to anticipate […]

John W. DenBoer, MA and Sigmund Hough, PhD, ABPP
Abstract
     This case study explored the challenge of using verbal feedback with an individual following simultaneous with spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury (SCI/TBI) with visual impairment. A man in his late 20’s received a severe open head injury and T5 ASIA B ischemic spinal […]

Terrie Price, PhD, ABPP

Greetings!
The Annual Conference approaches and I encourage members to register before July 1 for the best registration rate. The Program Committee has organized an excellent venue of speakers and will be providing additional information regarding the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center, area amenities, activities, and events. We are also fortunate to […]

Irmo Marini, PhD
Bush Vetoes Stem Cell Bill Again
    For the second time in two years, the U.S. Senate passed S5, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, which would lift the ban on federally funded stem cell research. President Bush vetoed the bill in 2006 after it had passed both Houses of Congress by wide margins […]

Robin Dannevik, MSW
    Mr. Chavez* fell down a flight of stairs in his home last year. The accident left him quadriplegic. He spent the next several months in rehabilitation centers and nursing homes before coming to the Spinal Cord Injury unit at the Edward Hines Veterans Affairs Medical Center for further acute rehabilitation. Mr. Chavez is […]

Ann Marie Warren, PhD, and Timothy R. Elliott, PhD
     Individuals who incur a spinal cord injury (SCI) face immediate, profound, and often permanent life changes. The enormity of the SCI, however, often dominates the clinical picture, and when concomitant impairments such as traumatic brain injury (TBI) occur they are often overlooked. This […]

Lauri Yablick, PhD

Laura Cushman could be one of AASCIPSW’s best kept secrets. Commonly described as quiet, shy, and introverted, Cushman is all about stealth. Soft-spoken is probably a better descriptor than quiet. And shy or introverted? Suspend judgment. Cushman attended her first AASCIPSW conference in 1990, and responded to the realization that she didn’t know […]

Deborah Blanchard, ACSW, LCSW
    I recently retired from my job with the State of Louisiana. At about the same time, I also fell and wound up with both a tibia plateau and a femur fracture and have been basically home-bound. The highlight of my morning has been the newspaper and the Ellen Degeneres Show […]