"Voices of Experience" Series Preview

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The “Voices of Experience” video series offers honest shared moments from a diverse group of people who are successfully living with spinal cord injuries themselves. The series introduces newly-injured people to a wide-ranging group of individuals who share the world they are now entering. Their comments are drawn from FacingDisability.com’s library of more than 2,000 videos of people coping with paralysis.
The videos cover personal topics that patients are often uncomfortable about bringing up during counseling sessions or even with medical and rehab professionals. A focus group of SCI team members at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab reviewed and refined the final list of video topics/questions.
The series was created for distribution on the in-hospital TV networks of the Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems hospitals, as well to other healthcare institutions and online to everyone.
The series is a joint project of FacingDisability.com and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, created in fulfillment of the outreach component of SRALab’s Model Systems NIDILRR grant. Drs. Allen Heinemann, Director of Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research and Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University and David Chen, Section Chief of Spinal Cord Injury, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, are the co-directors of the grant.