Division of Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities

Program in Aging and Developmental Disabilities- Research

The Program in Aging and Developmental Disabilities (PADD) participates in the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Aging with a Developmental Disability. This project is funded by the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) has the following goals:

Improve health and function of adults with I/DD across the lifespan
Enhance consumer-directed home and community based long-term care
Reduce environmental barriers to health and community participation
Improve instruments and measures to assess outcomes of interventions to improve health and function

PADD’s involvement in the RRTC centers on the conduct of a project entitled Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Lifespan Health Outcomes. The project is led by Matthew P. Janicki, Ph.D. and Philip W. Davidson, Ph.D. Other investigators include C. Michael Henderson, M.D., Laura M. Robinson, M.P.H., Kelly Hsieh, Ph.D. and Jon Meccarello, Ph.D.

To Learn more about our research click here.

PADD Developed the Rochester Health Status Survey-IV (RHSS) which is a 16 page questionnaire composed of four sections:

Demographics
General Physical Health
Medical conditions including lifetime prevalence, point prevalence (last 24 months) and incidence (last 3 months)
Health Services Utilization and Health Surveillance.

If you would like additional information on research that PADD is working on please contact, Philip William Davidson, Ph.D. at (585)275-6626 or phil_davidson@urmc.rochester.edu

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